From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,216b18d81cce4f75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-02 06:25:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B183CB8.3EE396E7@engineer.com><_M3S6.8957$HL5.1284411@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com><8DKS6.27593$%_1.4657414@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com><0daV6.9332$6d5.1953313@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3B34AE89.FFBE39EF@ebox.tninet.se> <9heq45$j9f$1@wanadoo.fr> <3B3B6F8F.EAA0F196@online.no> <9hp6rb$6t2@news.kvaerner.com> Subject: Re: Ada Microkernel? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:25:41 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 13:25:41 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9327 Date: 2001-07-02T13:25:41+00:00 List-Id: In article <9hp6rb$6t2@news.kvaerner.com>, Tarjei T. Jensen says... >Ted Dennison wrote >>I'd think that would be a horrible disadvantage on the PC platform. Folks >are >>going to want to be able to boot off of SCSSI devices, CDROM drives, >Floppies, >>ZIP disks, LS-120's, PCMCIA drives, firewire drives, and whatever else they >may >>invent next week. Its OK to not support all that stuff at first, but it >should >>be doable. > >You misunderstand. It is only the very basic kernel which is written in >assembly language. Not the device drivers, etc. Don't device drivers have to be loaded from a device *after* the boot process has begun? Perhaps what I'm thinking of is a bootloader issue... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com