Re: Please Share Ada -Freedos - Dos experiences

[DrPi <314@drpi.fr>]

Le 28/05/2023 à 13:01, DrPi a écrit :
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>> However, the biggest obstacle for using FreeDOS is hardware support. 
>> FreeDOS depends upon BIOS and all motherboards since 2020 no longer 
>> support BIOS. Does anybody know of any hardware produced today that 
>> supports FreeDOS?
> 
> Do you really need to use an old PC hardware ?
> 
> On a PC (and ARM), you can also run QNX which is a real-time 
> micro-kernel OS. It is a commercial product but is free for education 
> and research.
> 
> On PCs its is currently easy to use PCIe extension boards. Like FPGA 
> boards.
> 
> Also, there are very powerful non x86 (mostly ARM) hardware today. Most 
> of these boards have PCIe ports to easily add extension boards.
> 
> 
I forgot to say that Adacore sells a Ada compiler for some QNX versions 
(7.x +) but I don't know if there is a free version for education/research.