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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-12 13:37:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!nnxp1.twtelecom.net!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!194.168.4.91.MISMATCH!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news13-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) References: <4519e058.0209101828.cb5ff85@posting.google.com> <3d7f9d3f.920665532@news.cis.dfn.de> <3d80b566.992395741@news.cis.dfn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Inktomi-Trace: pc2-bbrg1-4-cust58.ren.cable.ntl.com 1031863062 12803 80.4.70.58 (12 Sep 2002 20:37:42 GMT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:36:46 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.3.128.4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news13-win.server.ntlworld.com 1031863063 80.3.128.4 (Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:37:43 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:37:43 BST Organization: ntl News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28886 Date: 2002-09-12T21:36:46+01:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > Currently, I plan to write 'native' device drivers (in Ada) for AdaOS. I > intend to go to the original hardware documentation wherever posisble, and > write the drivers properly. I don't think it's unfair to suggest that most > device drivers (even commercial ones) tend be of remarkably poor quality. > > Nevertheless, it would be really handy to provide compatibility layers that > would allow existing device drivers to be used. At some stage, maybe we > will have a go at this. What about UDI? It's not the most Ada thing in the universe but it's all about reuse, so perhaps it's worth considering?