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Subject: Re: is there a version of unix written in Ada
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On Monday, September 28, 2020 at 10:48:46 AM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote=
:
> On 28/09/2020 15:48, Olivier Henley wrote:=20
> > On Monday, September 28, 2020 at 3:41:27 AM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wr=
ote:=20
> >> Le 27/09/2020 =C3=A0 17:01, Dmitry A. Kazakov a =C3=A9crit :=20
> >> To me a new OS must have new interface, which is a huge challenge,=20
> >> because interfaces of "modern" OSes are state of the art of late 70's.=
=20
> >=20
> > Any good references about that?
> I never saw anything novel published on OS interfacing since eternity.=20
> This is incredible on itself considering how much happened in the last=20
> half of century: distributed computing, multiple cores, virtualization,=
=20
> GPUs and vectorized computing, hundreds of generations of GUI, total=20
> overhaul of all hardware I/O interfaces, security and consistency=20
> challenges yet nothing could disturb the serenity of OS API.

If I could read your mind and therefore consult your knowledge I would but =
Elon Musk's chips are not available yet... ;)

It would be great if you could, at one point, gather those thoughts and doc=
ument them in some way.
I am sure your encompassing knowledge would make a great design foundation.
Do you think you could make a 'lite' UML diagram of such ideas so as to hav=
e the first step toward a concrete context and publish it somewhere?

Personally, I think a Github readme.md page would be ideal at first as peop=
le could contribute ideas, complements but still be managed. (pull request,=
 approve, revise etc) =20
 =20