16 Apr
2009
16 Apr
'09
7:29 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Last time I looked at the BASIC Stamp, you wrote the
program on a PC and
compiled it to a pseudocode that was downloaded to the Stamp and
interpretted there. I have no idea of the performance of that, the
documetnation that was available didn't seem to go to a low enough level
to work it out.
I don't know why people are so fond of the BASIC Stamp. It seems to add
an unnecessary layer of complication to what is really a pretty simple
job. The PIC microcontroller is kind of designed to be easy to program
in assembler to do simple control jobs. It's also about the only CPU I
know of that's easier to program in assembler than C.
And of course for me to use the Stamp, I'd have to
get some machine to
run that pseudocode compiler on. Which I don't have.
One of the reasons I ditched PIC in favour of AVR is that the avr-gcc
toolchain is far more robust than any of the PIC assemblers. The PIC,
however, is a very very simple processor and you could knock up an
assembler for it on any machine you liked in an afternoon. Anyway, I
thought you had a 486 running Linux?
Gordon