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-Thread: 103376,1a44c40a66c293f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Preferred OS, processor family for running embedded Ada? Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:59:16 +0100 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <1172192349.419694.274670@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1172239820.896603.222120@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: taasingegade.news.jacob-sparre.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1172325556 20152 85.82.239.166 (24 Feb 2007 13:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:59:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p/rpLy56CIct/esmrdAS8TJ2jRE= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9489 Date: 2007-02-24T14:59:16+01:00 List-Id: Mike Silva wrote: > Stephen Leake wrote: >> Mike Silva wrote: >> > I'm assuming I'll want an OS on the board for the runtime stuff. >> > Would one of the *BSDs or Linux be the way to go? If so and >> > given my intentions, would there be a reason to choose one over >> > the other? My contrary side wants to try a *BSD, but I have no >> > experience in any of them _or_ Linux. >> >> > And what about processor family? I was thinking ARM or Coldfire >> > or PPC (something in the MPC5xx family maybe). Again, would >> > there be an Ada- or OS-related reason to choose one over the >> > others? [...] >> They all cost money, several thousands of dollars. You don't say >> how much money you are willing to spend; is $10k too much? > > Yes, you did respond and I was grateful for your comments. As this > is just a hobby/learning thing at the moment, $10k is way, way too > much. I'd like to keep the cost including SBC under, say, $1000. One of my acquaintances from the local Linux user group works with a Linux/IA32-based embedded kit. If I remember correctly, the price is less than 200 USD for a full system (and the size of the embedded unit is less than 10 cm�). I'll ask him about the source of the kit, and let you know when I have an answer. Greetings, Jacob -- There only exist 10 kinds of people: Those who know binary numbers and those who don't know binary numbers.