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From: Hannes Haug <Hannes.Haug@Student.Uni-Tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: Why couldn't an operating system be written in ada
Date: 1996/07/17
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

    Robert> Nasser said
    Robert> "Building a "real" OS is a very large job, it takes years and
    Robert> years, with large teams of people working on it, and very few
    Robert> companies can committ to something like this very easily regardless
    Robert> of the language used."

    Robert> Building a full OS, including all utilities, compilers, etc is
    Robert> indeed a very large job, but building just the kernel is not such
    Robert> a  big job (Linux for instance is NOT that large). So building an
    Robert> OS kernel in Ada would be a reasonably practical project.

Perhaps the just released Flux Operating System Toolkit
(http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/oskit/html/) can be used.
A hello word kernel is probably a weekend project. But I might
be wrong.

 -hannes