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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Help with embedded hardware/software platform selection for ADA
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On 2013-07-02, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:27:40 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> 
>> I still wonder why not a single vendor sells a Ravenscar run-time
>> with compiler at a hobbyist price, without support.
>
> Why a hobbyist would even look at Ravenscar?
>
> IMO, a hobbyist if not obsessed with systems programming, wants full Ada
> and a "normal" OS. This is quite possible to have today. And this is where
> Ada shines, because you can develop and test on a PC and then just
> recompile the code for the embedded target without any changes. At least
> this is the way we do it.
>

It's not just systems programming, but hard realtime programming.

If you are using a "normal" OS, can I assume you don't have a hard
real-time requirement (at least within the Ada code itself) ?

A number of the project areas which interest hobbyists have a realtime
component to them and a number of those have a hard realtime component.

Simon.

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