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Is there a Mono equivalent to Microsofts .Net Micro Framework, specifically for deeply embedded systems?

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Is there a Mono equivalent to Microsofts .Net Micro Framework, specifically for deeply embedded systems?

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A3. No, there is not. We do not really need one, for reasons that go to the heart of the advantages of “open source.” The problem with Microsoft’s Compact Framework for .Net is that they said, okay, for embedded, we’re going to remove all these APIs and make it really small. But, they were the ones who made the decision about what was needed. Sometimes developers would like to use features that were cut off. A lot of people have now contributed patches to trim down Mono, or reshape the libraries in any form you want. We provide a super-set. And, people can shape the Mono runtime using the Mono Linker tool, so we do not really need a compact version. Q3b. What would be the absolute minimum footprint for the Mono runtime? A3b. Oh, I just shut down my computer, and I had that information there… I’m going to take a guess that it is about 2.5MB of disk space. You could also try to get some numbers from Otee for their Unity iPhone runtime [vendor product page]. Q4. After Mono 2.0 was annou

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