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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a44c40a66c293f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!z35g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Mike Silva" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Preferred OS, processor family for running embedded Ada? Date: 23 Feb 2007 05:13:13 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172236393.230255.21730@z35g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> References: <1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.200.253.86 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172236409 11433 127.0.0.1 (23 Feb 2007 13:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:13:29 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z35g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.200.253.86; posting-account=iqF8WgwAAACZn9w3gUkat69TUHJX8CiX Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9456 Date: 2007-02-23T05:13:13-08:00 List-Id: On Feb 22, 11:49 pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote: > Asking for the "preferred" anything here is dangerous. You'll provoke > all sorts of arguments about which what is "preferred". I can believe that. I was asking in terms of what OSes and/or processors might have better support, or fewer gotchas. What I want to avoid is the situation where some port or feature X has not been kept up to dat, or is known to have problems. For example, I believe I remember some years back that there was a problem or poor performance with some version of Linux threads. That kind of thing. What I want to do is not accidentally drift so far out of the mainstream that I cause myself grief. > > For getting quickly and easily into embedded Ada, you could try Lego > Mindstorms. There's a free Ada => NQC compiler available. This is not > the preferred way, of course, but it is a way. I appreciate that suggestion, but I'd like to work with a 32-bit mainstream processor family. While my goal now is just to play around, if I could use what I learn in some real products down the line so much the better. It's that hopeful thing about maybe getting paid to do Ada (after I first have some fun with it).