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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-07 11:38:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:38:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <3F30F167.9070302@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: abyss2.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1060281505 18457 62.49.62.197 (7 Aug 2003 18:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:38:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.13.4 (She had eyes like strange sins.) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41235 Date: 2003-08-07T19:38:23+01:00 List-Id: On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 08:15:35 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote: > Its hard to imagine what sort of project you might be interested in. One Well, for one, I have been (although not recently) researching operating systems and want to design one. I know what I want to achieve on this but I haven't actually been able to do any work on it for ages :-( > thing I think would be useful would be to develop an Ada programming kit > for some small, inexpensive, popular SBC. Start with the Gnat compiler > and pull together other open source resources and build a > cross-compilation package that can compile, link, load and execute a > simple Ada program on the SBC. If you can get something to start ticking > inside an embedded box, that's 90% of the battle and ought to prove > you're serious about it. I have an R4600 based Indy sitting next to me. Unless you mean something smaller, a la handheld? Luke.