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zolan - 14 Oct 2003 06:58 GMT

I am researching the use of the CLR as a core OS for cheap embedded devices.
I am not having a great deal of luck finding resources on the subject of
truly embedded CLR other than the compact framework.

The presentation (below) that I found discusses the "Lantronix .net CLR for
small devices". Although this sounds interesting and runs on the class of
devices (8086 and above) it is of no use for my project since it is not
currently open source.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.upnp.org/download/upnpsummit
slides/Lantronix%2520SDK%2520-%2520Dan%2520Quigley.ppt&e=7764

Does anyone have any idea of how involved it would be to port core pieces of
Rotor to a 16 bit platform? I do not need the whole of the runtime library
for this to be useful.

-zoltan-

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John Montgomery [MSFT] - 14 Oct 2003 18:17 GMT

Porting Rotor to a 16-bit CPU would be pretty hard -- it's based off the
full .NET Framework tree, which is 32-bit only. That said, if you're looking
for a commercial application, Rotor wouldn't be right for you anyway -- it's
non-commercial only.

John
Director, Product Management
.NET Framework
Microsoft

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Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook] - 14 Oct 2003 19:28 GMT

Zolan,

> Although this sounds interesting and runs on the class of
> devices (8086 and above) it is of no use for my project since it is not
> currently open source.

My understanding is that Rotor is not Open Source, I understand that Rotor
is academic, in that it is for use to learn. Open Source can be
commercial...

You may want to look at one of the Open Source versions of .NET, and proceed
from there.

One place to start might be www.go-mono.com

Hope this helps
Jay

> I am researching the use of the CLR as a core OS for cheap embedded devices.
> I am not having a great deal of luck finding resources on the subject of
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> devices (8086 and above) it is of no use for my project since it is not
> currently open source.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.upnp.org/download/upnpsummit
slides/Lantronix%2520SDK%2520-%2520Dan%2520Quigley.ppt&e=7764

> Does anyone have any idea of how involved it would be to port core pieces of
> Rotor to a 16 bit platform? I do not need the whole of the runtime library
> for this to be useful.
>
> -zoltan-

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