From: "chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: hypothetical question
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:32:05 +0100
Date: 2001-07-06T11:32:05+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <zrg17.628$B56.128729@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ee5b646.0107051351.14892b2@posting.google.com
> > Also you can't just do an OS in Ada, at some point there has to be
> > some Asm though it may just be one or two lines to invoke task
> > switching etc.
>
> nope, once you have your low level Ada compiler bootstrapped then
> you can do the operating system task switching entirely in terms
> of Ada task switching. Thinking you have to use ASM to do task
> switching is exactly like thinking you have to use ASM to do a
> hardware addition. Yes, there is a bootstrap problem, but given
> Ada compilers on other machines, that is easily solvable.
I didn't know that, thanks.
Chris
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2001-07-05 15:53 ` hypothetical question Ted Dennison
2001-07-05 16:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-05 16:10 ` Al Christians
2001-07-06 1:05 ` B. Douglas Hilton
2001-07-06 14:14 ` Ted Dennison
2001-07-06 21:41 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2001-07-07 10:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-07-05 18:01 ` chris.danx
2001-07-05 21:51 ` Robert Dewar
2001-07-06 10:32 ` chris.danx [this message]
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