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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 07:51:30 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote:

> An OS is a pretty serious project - even if you're looking at an 
> embedded OS of some sort. If you start with too big an objective, you'll 
> likely not achieve it. You might try taking some existing OS and porting 
> it. That would be a good start and might be achievable in a reasonable 
> time span. There was an RTOS out there written in Ada - RTEMS if I 
> recall the name correctly. One called MaRTE also springs to mind. Try:
> 
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/457082.html

I am aware of this (and this site). I have no exact idea when it will be
complete. I only have a (kind of) design document at the moment, but I do
know what I want to achieve. It isn't something that will happen overnight
and yes, I have been researching - with citeseer being a main point of
interest for the papers I have been reading.

I am not an idiot yet I have no intentions of creating an OS in Ada, what
I want is a *project* to help me get back into Ada and possibly give an
idea as to whether I really want to do this.

Luke.