30 Dec
2008
30 Dec
'08
11:07 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I was secretly hoping for much the same thing. I have several HP machines
that use Amigo or SS/80 disks. I'd probably buy one if it wasn't _too_
expensive 9read : I can't afford the prices charged for such things to
people who depened on such machines for their work).
Well, uIEC tries to hit the $50-$100 price range, so it's not terribly
I call that 'not too expensive' :-). Nobody is saying you have to make a
loss :-). It's just that some of the commercial solutions are many
thousands of dollars and I simply can't afford that for an add-on to a
hobby system.
expensive, but provides enough profit to pay for my
tools I needed to
buy to create it and add functionality to it.
OK. That's open :-)
How 'open' is the uIEC? The more open
something like this is, the more
likely I am to get it (of course!).
The plans, source, PCB, etc. are all under GPL v2. However, for the ASM
lovers and the C haters of the list, I will note that
almost the entire
firmware is in 'C'.
There's a na English proverb 'Never look a gift horse in the mouth' :-).
Yes, I do prefer assembly language over C. But if I am being _given_
something I am not going to moan...
Actually my main moan on C for microcontrollers is that the compiler is
either expensive or I can't sensibly run it, or both.
-tony