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On Jun 8, 9:32=A0am, Patrick <patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I would like to run Ada on bare metal but it doesn't look like this will =
be possible for me in the short term.
>
> There are many RTOS to choose from and it's hard to know which ones will =
play nice with Ada.
>
> I have been repairing scientific instruments for 14 years now and I am ju=
st recently considering building one of my own to sell(a spectrofluorometer=
). =A0I would love to do this in Ada.
>
> I don't think I will use a microcontroller for this but rather add my own=
 memory and peripherals. It's not an absolute requirement but running on AR=
M sounds like a good place to start.
>
> I would like the instrument to be able to participate on a LAN.
>
> Simplicity is more import to me then power, I will need to get to know th=
e OS well.
>
> So all-in-all, an RTOS that brings me as close to what a bare metal envir=
onment would have been but supports networking and will support all of Ada'=
s core language features like tasking, would be ideal.
>
> If anyone could give me some pointers, I would really appreciate it, this=
 will be quite a challenge for me and getting started with the right OS cou=
ld make a huge difference.
>
> Thanks for reading-Patrick

For open-source OS that work with Ada and that you can try for free,
look at RTEMS and MaRTE:

http://www.rtems.org
http://marte.unican.es/