Re: Ada Microkernel?

[gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de (Gerhard Häring)]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:01:09 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote:
>Even if it is just a debating society, it seems to be failing at that too.
>We have not heard even a slight peep about it in quite some time here and
>updates to the web site seem to be at or near zero. I don't even see a
>discussion page on the website, so who is doing the debating?

The disucussion happens on the (low-traffic) mailing list.

>Its a shame - I'd love to see an Ada OS available for PCs, etc. However, I
>think that the project was just too ambitious to succeed. If it had the
>first objective being a simple, embedable OS to handle scheduling and I/O,
>it might have got to that level - then been able to progress from there. A
>good, solid, real-time executive would be a good place to start for a more
>robust PC-ish OS.

The only open-source Ada RTOS I am aware of is OpenRavenscar at
http://www.openravenscar.org/ , though I haven't yet tried it.

Gerhard
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