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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec20777e0d41ea0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-14 13:38:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!inmet!not-for-mail From: Tucker Taft Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:36:20 -0500 Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Message-ID: <3AAFE454.B079E0F1@averstar.com> References: <3A82EFA2.C8756B09@acm.org> <970ma1$1l7$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <98inu2$1fr$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <98kjgv$3j69@news.kvaerner.com> <98lc03$23l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AAED3D6.79CEAA7F@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: nebula.burl.averstar.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: inmet2.burl.averstar.com 984605781 19059 141.199.8.77 (14 Mar 2001 21:36:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@inmet2.burl.averstar.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Mar 2001 21:36:21 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5737 Date: 2001-03-14T21:36:21+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > > Marin David Condic wrote: > > > > Just for grins, I plugged some words into Google and turned up: > > http://www.zworld.com/index.html - you might pay them a visit and look at > > the cost of their boards/development products. They're advertising their > > "RabbitCore 2000" development kit for $169. (I'm sure you can plus it up > > with plenty of options, but that's not a bad starting point, is it?) If > > there was a little SBC like this with an Ada compiler, I think it might make > > a good basis for an embedded programming class.... > > This looks interesting. Perhaps you could organize a deal between ZWorld > for this kit, Averstar for their Ada-to-ANSI-C compiler, and an > interested Ada person like MDC to write some simple compilation scripts > to hide the C, and still offer it at a price that a student could > afford. Let me know how we could be of help. > > -- > Jeff Carter > "I blow my nose on you." > Monty Python & the Holy Grail -- -Tucker Taft stt@avercom.net http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Chief Technology Officer, AverCom Corporation (A Titan Company) Burlington, MA USA (AverCom was formerly the Commercial Division of AverStar: http://www.averstar.com/services/ebusiness_applications.html)