"Dale Jr, William" wrote: > > I think the DOS port is important. > > There are Free or at least Cheap DOS clones and I 'd like to see a SBC > running DOS w/ Gnat Ada 95 as a very interesting real-time system. DOS is > the next best thing to NO Operating system - which is were I think Ada > really shines! If the DOS / Gnat Ada 95 supported Ada tasking it could be > awesome! I don't think it does in previous versions. > > So sitting in a shrink-wrapped box is: > > * x86 SBC with lots of memory, ports, ethernet, USB what have you > * Ada Gnat Ada 95 development tools that run on Windoze and/or Linux > > Sounds like a nice prototyping/target embedded development environment. Another alternative in this case is using GNAT/RTEMS targetting a PC. This would also give you the features you mention -- networking (RTEMS includes FreeBSD TCP/IP stack), remote debugging via serial port or Ethernet, ability to run console on video or serial port, etc. Moreover, since RTEMS supports 8 processor families, you could easily move to other embedded targets. I would love to see this combination available for use by students studying embedded real-time systems, prototypers, etc. > Unfortunately I'm not real experienced at such ports. If there are > others who find this an interesting idea let me know and we can kick it > around and see if there is a need. If the DOS GNAT is really only around to support this type of target, then perhaps it is time to consider making a binary for GNAT/RTEMS based on 3.11p available. Is there anyone interested in that alternative? > Bill Dale > LMMS > mailto:[log in to unmask] > mailto:[log in to unmask] > -- Joel Sherrill, Ph.D. Director of Research & Development [log in to unmask] On-Line Applications Research Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805 Support Available (256) 722-9985