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From: Shark8 on 11 Jan 2010 20:13 I was wondering if there would be any interest in coding up an OS in Ada. I don't mean taking an existing codebase and rewriting/converting it to Ada, but implementing it from the ground up. It's been a bit of a "for later" project for me to write an OS, although I did begin to write one in Turbo Pascal which got to the point of being able to recognize user-commands & (based on those commands) change the screen resolution. {And all using less than ten lines of inline assembly!} As time went on the project went on the back-burner and "later" never really came around, but in that meantime I was finishing up my degree in CS and came across Ada in my senior-level programming languages class. The design of Ada impressed me a lot and so I got myself Barnes's Ada 2005 book and started teaching myself. (So, in reality I'm pretty new to Ada, but I do come from a Pascal background and like the idea of having my compiler check things for correctness.) Anyway, I was wondering if anybody here would be interested in such a project.
From: Leslie on 11 Jan 2010 22:30 Shark8 wrote: > I was wondering if there would be any interest in coding up an > OS in Ada. I don't mean taking an existing codebase and > rewriting/converting it to Ada, but implementing it from the > ground up. It's been a bit of a "for later" project for me to > write an OS, although I did begin to write one in Turbo Pascal > which got to the point of being able to recognize user-commands > & (based on those commands) change the screen resolution. {And > all using less than ten lines of inline assembly!} > > As time went on the project went on the back-burner and "later" > never really came around, but in that meantime I was finishing > up my degree in CS and came across Ada in my senior-level > programming languages class. The design of Ada impressed me a > lot and so I got myself Barnes's Ada 2005 book and started > teaching myself. (So, in reality I'm pretty new to Ada, but I > do come from a Pascal background and like the idea of having my > compiler check things for correctness.) > > Anyway, I was wondering if anybody here would be interested in > such a project. Interestingly, I was just thinking last week while reading John Barnes' /Programming in Ada 2005/ that Ada would be a fine language to user for writing an OS. I'm not yet proficient in Ada, but would be interested in contributing what I can. Leslie
From: Shark8 on 12 Jan 2010 02:06 Excellent. Good to know I'm not completely alone. I busted out my sourceforge account and started a project for it. [ https://sourceforge.net/projects/admiral-os/ ] I chose the name Admiral as a bit of a nod to the old Commodore. {Side note: it's AMAZING what they did with 64 or 128 KB & 1 to 2 MHz of 8- bit CPU goodness!}
From: Ludovic Brenta on 12 Jan 2010 03:36 Shark8 wrote on comp.lang.ada: > Excellent. Good to know I'm not completely alone. > > I busted out my sourceforge account and started a project for it. > [https://sourceforge.net/projects/admiral-os/] > I chose the name Admiral as a bit of a nod to the old Commodore. {Side > note: it's AMAZING what they did with 64 or 128 KB & 1 to 2 MHz of 8- > bit CPU goodness!} Have a look at http://www.lovelace.fr This project is dormant at the moment but you can already check it out. -- Ludovic Brenta.
From: Dmitry A. Kazakov on 12 Jan 2010 04:41
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:13:55 -0800 (PST), Shark8 wrote: > Anyway, I was wondering if anybody here would be interested in such a > project. If that will be a really new OS (not a UNIX clone), OO, portable, distributed etc, for interesting platforms like this: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/scalable_open_source_computing_plat.html why not? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de |