26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
10:26 a.m.
On 10/26/2011 12:41 PM, David Riley wrote:
Agreed 100%.
I really wish the relevant GCC port maintainers would get their stuff
straightened out for that platform.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Operating
system? Well, there are OSes that fit inside a low-end
PIC. For that matter, there's a version of Linux that runs on a
PIC32 ?C.
To be fair, a "PIC32" is just what Microchip has decided to call its MIPS
microcontroller line. It's as much a PIC as an SGI box is (aside from the form factor
and reduced RAM; most PIC32s have as many Ethernet interfaces and many times more serial
ports than most SGI machines ever did, even if they require external PHYs to talk to the
outside world).
Not relevant to the discussion, but it hurts my brain a little when I see people talk
about PIC32s as somehow related to PICs. They're great micros, but I wish Microchip
had called them something else. :-)