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: 103376,216b18d81cce4f75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-11 16:25:08 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!netnews.com!newsfeed.nyc.globix.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!world!bobduff From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: Ada Microkernel? Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:24:16 GMT References: <3B183CB8.3EE396E7@engineer.com> <_M3S6.8957$HL5.1284411@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <8DKS6.27593$%_1.4657414@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <0daV6.9332$6d5.1953313@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8589 Date: 2001-06-11T23:24:16+00:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" writes: > Silly me forgot the fourth question! > > is there a 16bit Ada compiler for x86 platforms -- can't use 32bit at all since > bootloader must work in real mode! Might write it in C, but only if i have to! It's not that big of a deal to write it in assembly. But as I said in my previous post, why bother, until you have all kinds of cool (higher level) stuff? Your OS will be easier to debug if you run it as a process under some preexisting OS. - Bob