Re: ADA os talk (Innovate!)

["McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me>]

In article <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk>,
Tony Gair <tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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 ???

Alot of people think in terms of Unix or Windows when they think of a
Kernel. Why shouldn't  one do something better.

I'm thinking along the lines of Plan9 or Inferno, or similar to Progeny's
(on hold) N.O.W. Project. Ada seems ideal for this type of work.

Anyone agree?

McDoobie

chris@dont.spam.me