31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
12:33 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:22:37AM -0600, Jim Brain wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
>You know, a $2 PIC (e.g. 18F2580) MCU implements CAN. It's not
>really fast(CAN, not the PIC) but it keeps your car going. A minimum
>of external components required. You even get a bunch of other neat
>stuff thrown in (USART, timers, ADC, etc.). All in a 28 pin skinny
>DIP or QFN.
Interesting suggestion - we have a number of VME crates with CAN bus
capability - not the CPUs on the VME bus, the crates themselves... I
think it's used for environmental monitoring and control in this
application.
I looked at that (Actually, I looked at AVR8 CAN
variants), but I
thought I'd try to find an all C64 option for Sellam. I like the uC
approach, as it offloads a lot of the networking from the main machine
(like the original ARPANET had those boxes that bridged the net to the
machine, can;t remember the term for them).
IMPs - Internet Message Procesors. I'm blanking on the first generation
hardware, but later IMPs were PDP-11-based.
I think Sellam preferred the C64 only approach so
folks could replicate
it more easily.
Certainly, the less external hardware, the more likely someone else will
give it a go. If the end result is an application that will run on, say,
eight C-64s, I might try it when I get home. If it's more of a 32-minimum
or 64-minimum, that's a bit more hardware than I have access to.
-ethan
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