19 Nov
2003
19 Nov
'03
5:32 a.m.
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:05, Tony Duell wrote:
yes this occurred to me also, the Parallax BASIC STAMPs do the same
thing. It doesn't matter of course in most practical realms, this
stored-program distinction.
Well, for rigor, I reserve "computer" for the stored-program machines,
but this is approaching religious behavior, I admit, and clearly a PIC
with an interpreter suuuure acts like one... :-)
But is it
STORED PROGRAM, eg. can it do self-modifying code. vonNeumann
It's a bit odd. It's got separate machine code program and data memories,
but user keystroke programs are stored in _data_ memory, and interpretted
by the machine-code operating system.
Strictly-speaking, Microchip's PICs are NOT COMPUTERS. Of course I don't
Since when? AFAIK, Harvard architecture machines are computers.
Self-modification of programs is not a requirement.