RE: ADA os talk

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Mike Silva et al.

Creating an Ada kernel permits a seamless Ada approach to the real-time part
of a program. The compiler can both check and optimize the complete
real-time code. This Ada kernel should NOT be a translation or the
equivalent of a thin binding to the present Linux kernel. It should be a
well designed Ada construct. An analogy is R&R CLAW, which very effectively
hides the ugliness of Windows from the user. An Ada kernel should facilitate
the use of Ada scheduling. The creation and testing of an Ada Linux kernel
will greatly facilitate ports to other operating systems. It is conceivable
that this could be a very profitable product.

This kernel together with a XML based GUI could be the Ada killer
application for which we all have been waiting.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Mike Silva
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 8:29 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: ADA os talk


Tony Gair <tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk>...
> This is an area I've been watching for some time.
>
> And I suspect a lot of people are interested in this too.....
>
> I would be interested to know peoples strategies for getting one up and
running and just to get the talk rolling heres my tuppence..
>
> Make a ada kernal and interface it to the rest of linux operating system
by using c interfaces and then start writing the filesystem, drivers and X
windows, blah blah....
>
> what do people think ???

How big is the Linux kernel?  How many calls?  While others may say
there's no point in duplicating what already exists, I think it would
be a a good small-steps approach (and thus more likely to actually
happen) to getting some more Ada code and Ada awareness out there.

Mike