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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: joel@OARcorp.com Subject: Re: Making ADA More Popular Date: 1999/01/27 Message-ID: <78ni40$95o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 437589765 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i686) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x16.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 208.166.120.97 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jan 27 17:24:28 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Michael Garrett" wrote: > > Take an inexpensive processor which has a gnu / cygnus compiler port and its > evaluation board > and provide gnat with a runtime environment (RTEMS ADA?) for a decent price, > around 200.00 US. > > This would provide an ADA real-time programming environment that students > could access and actually design, and code on. ( I am not a student, and > would be first in line! ) > > One such board is the hitachi SH1 evaluation kit. For 99.00 it includes a > decent amount of peripherals, and the cygnus toolchain. I'm not sure if > RTEMS is ported to the SH1. RTEMS has been ported to the SH1. This port is new in 4.0. > A power PC eval board is probably available also. A number of these exist. I recall that IBM has some for the 4xx series. I would expect that there are ones available for the Motorola 8xx series. Don't forget that Motorola also has Coldfire eval boards that would likely be suitable as a student target. And remember that a PC can be treated as an embedded target. You can go so far as cross develop on a UNIX box and debug on it remotely. This would likely be a good option for many university labs. > In many companies, it is these evaluation kits which gain the loyalty of > energetic and inspired individuals. This loyalty gets parts designed in. It > could also get languages designed in. > > I can guarantee that in a years time, Java will be available in this format. > ADA should be there too. > > If Aonix is listening, how about an evaluation Raven kit for a processor > Eval Board? I understand the financial pain of reading this, but the more > ADA users there are, we all win. If someone is interested in sponsoring the development of such a kit using GNAT/RTEMS, feel free to contact Mark Johannes (mark@OARcorp.com). We would certainly like to see this option available to educators. --joel Joel Sherrill Director of Research & Development joel@OARcorp.com On-Line Applications Research Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805 Support Available (205) 722-9985 -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own