Re: Realtime and ADA - stupid newby question

["Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

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"Marc Pelletier" <marc@goldak.stopspam.ca> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I am planning a realtime application for data acquisition on a pc104
> platform and investigating my OS options. I'm normally a delphi
programmer,
> and rather than the pain of boning up on my very poor C/C++ skills, I
would
> like to learn ADA for this project. Can someone please point me to some
> links which outline the pros and cons of the various OS's. I'm sure there
> are numerous I haven't heard of yet.
>
> Of particular interest is availability of device drivers for the various
> OS's.  We need a/d converters, serial cards, gps cards... the usual stuff.
>

Here's a first one that takes care of a lot of OS
http://www.parl.clemson.edu/~jranjes/projects/Puma/compare.htm

This one compares Mac OS/X Windows XP and Linux
http://thetechnozone.com/smartbuyersguide/OS_Shootout-2003.htm

Hopefully you'll find your answer in these links as in the specific
information you want to know about

> Also any background info I should read before starting in on ADA would be
> great.

*** Excellent choice :-) if I do say so myself...Hmmmm I just did didn't I?
;-).

>
> thanks
>
> Marc Pelletier
> Goldak Exploration

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