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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd0b1b3dfbe3822b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: PC as bare machine? Date: 1999/08/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 514883961 References: <7phsdr$haq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 935105307 206.170.2.177 (Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:28:27 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:28:27 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >I am wondering if it is possible to use a standard PC as a bare >machine development platform until I get the real target board. >Has anyone done this or know of any papers How about loading your program from disk using the services of MSDOS, then turn off the clock interrupt, grab the interrupt vectors, and proceed to ignore DOS and treat it as a bare machine. As has been pointed out, your Ada run-time better not assume there's an OS.