From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl
Subject: Re: PC as bare machine?
Date: 1999/08/20
Date: 1999-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FGsAF2.A3@stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7phsdr$haq$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ada2001 <ada2001@my-deja.com> wrote:
: I am starting on a embedded Ada development project that will ultimately
: run on a custom Intel CPU target board. The final target hardware will
: not be available for a few months. I am wondering if it is possible to
: use a standard PC as a bare machine development platform until I get the
: real target board. Has anyone done this or know of any papers
: describing how to boot a PC with a dedicated program (no operating
: system)?
In my experience, a 'bare board' really covers many variants, from really
bare boards, to boards with a bios and possibly an ROM'ed (DR)-DOS, to
boards with simple propriety ROM'ed monitors.
I sure hope your 'bare-board' includes a DOS ROM, as that would solve a
lot of 'start-up' problems. Otherwise, take a look at the sources of the
FreeDos project. Or Caldera's, if the source license is appropriate for
your use.
Jerry.
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-- Jerry van Dijk | email: jdijk@acm.org
-- Team Ada | web: http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-19 0:00 PC as bare machine? Ada2001
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-20 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-08-19 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-20 0:00 ` jerry [this message]
1999-08-20 0:00 ` William Thomas
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