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!k78g2000cwa.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 06:10:21 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172239820.896603.222120@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.40.191.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172239834 735 127.0.0.1 (23 Feb 2007 14:10:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:10:34 +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: k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.40.191.2; posting-account=iqF8WgwAAACZn9w3gUkat69TUHJX8CiX Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9463 Date: 2007-02-23T06:10:21-08:00 List-Id: On Feb 23, 8:56 am, Stephen Leake wrote: > "Mike Silva" writes: > > First a bit of background. I'm a longtime embedded programmer and a > > dabbler in Ada (I'd use it more if I could get paid for it). Now I'd > > like to play around with Ada on a single-board computer. I have no > > particular goals in mind other than to try something "neat". So, what > > is likely to be the quickest, most foolproof way for me to get from > > here to there? > > > I'm assuming I'll want an OS on the board for the runtime stuff. > > Would one of the *BSDs or Linux be the way to go? If so and given my > > intentions, would there be a reason to choose one over the other? My > > contrary side wants to try a *BSD, but I have no experience in any of > > them _or_ Linux. > > > And what about processor family? I was thinking ARM or Coldfire or > > PPC (something in the MPC5xx family maybe). Again, would there be an > > Ada- or OS-related reason to choose one over the others? > > > I did ask an abbreviated version of this question at the bottom of > > another thread, but I'm hoping this thread will have more visibility. > > So, is all of this do-able by a mere mortal? Many thanks for any > > advice! > > I responded to this before. There are several readily available > solutions to the requirements as you state them. > > They all cost money, several thousands of dollars. You don't say how > much money you are willing to spend; is $10k too much? Yes, you did respond and I was grateful for your comments. As this is just a hobby/learning thing at the moment, $10k is way, way too much. I'd like to keep the cost including SBC under, say, $1000. Do I dream the impossible dream? I hope not, because I'd really like to give this a try and perhaps learn enough to use embedded Ada commercially down the line (at which time somebody else could fork up the $10k).