26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
8:17 p.m.
On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
No argument there; a substantial chunk of the PIC32
documentation
appears to be cut and paste from the R4000 docs. But also to be
fair, Digilent markets a PIC32-based replacement for the AVR-based
Arduino, which is pretty much the embodiment of an embedded ?C.
In other words, the CPU architecture doesn't define the embeddedness.
Absolutely agreed, I was just getting tetchy about the juxtaposition of the talk about
little RTOSes for PICs and then Unix on the PIC32. It's a nervous tic I have from
working with too many customers whose only experience with micros is the PIC (because
they're too lazy to try anything else) and insist on upgrading to a PIC32 because they
think it'll be compatible with their existing software base.
I know you're smarter than that, but seeing both items together just makes those
klaxons start going off in my head...
- Dave