Re: Point a beginner in the right direction? Cheap bare-board to run with a RTOS for running Ada

[Marcus F <trenatos@gmail.com>]

Looking at their forum, it's very much dead, but if the software works and I can figure out how to install it and interface with a serial port or an IO board it should serve just fine as a starting point.

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:59:01 PM UTC-5, Marcus F wrote:
> Thank you, Jacob, this is excellent information.
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> I'd heard about ADA on Arduino, but wouldn't there be a relatively severe lack of space for code?
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> x86 and Marte sounds like a good beginner option, hardware is cheap and easy to come by, and I'm not worried about board-size or anything like that, this is purely for learning how to design, develop, and integrate a real system.
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> On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:20:45 PM UTC-5, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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> > If you want to play with LEON2/3 CPUs ORK+ (http://web.dit.upm.es/~ork/)
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> > RTEMS (http://rtems.org/) should be another option - with a large choice
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> > Greetings,
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> > "Those who will not reason, are bigots,
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