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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no 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: 2001-02-23 07:36:20 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!news.lattis.xara.net!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Increased Interest In Ada? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:17:01 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <975uv4$qbe$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3A82EFA2.C8756B09@acm.org> <970ma1$1l7$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <972uon$729@news.kvaerner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 982941476 26990 136.170.200.133 (23 Feb 2001 15:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Feb 2001 15:17:56 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5478 Date: 2001-02-23T15:17:56+00:00 List-Id: I'm taking a look at the PC/104 card info from: http://www.pc104.org/ It looks interesting, but as far as I can tell, you'd probably have some retargeting issues for GNAT no matter what you did. And of course, embedded programming is more than finding GNAT and RTEMS for some target hardware - you really need a lot of additional software for it to be useful. From the hardware side, you'd need to have some basic electrical things like A/Ds, D/As, (F/Ds, maybe?) discretes & ports that would be useful for student projects and representative of real-world development. I'm going to examine the PC/104 thing a bit more thoroughly. If you think of any other possibilities for an SBC to which GNAT might target with minimal fuss, let me know... Thanks. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote in message news:972uon$729@news.kvaerner.com... > It is clearly commercial possibilities if you can find a decent and cheap > PC/104 card or a PC motherboard/bios to work with. Then it should be a matter > of documenting how to use gnat and/or RTEMS to get results. You may have to > write a few drivers for the network card or graphics card. > > You would have a great teaching tool and a easy kit to commercialize.