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: 103376,5bcf30769d6d9599 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-02 00:26:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news2.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "McDoobie" Subject: Re: ADA os talk (Innovate!) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: Pan/0.8.1beta4 (Unix) X-No-Productlinks: Yes Message-ID: Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 07:26:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.0.109.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2 999415577 24.0.109.49 (Sun, 02 Sep 2001 00:26:17 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 00:26:17 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12633 Date: 2001-09-02T07:26:17+00:00 List-Id: In article <20010826235613.1b22c8c2.tonygair@kissmyspam.blueyonder.co.uk>, Tony Gair 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