Getting OT - Microcontrollers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Apr 2009

On 17 Apr 2009, at 05:52, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:

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 Message: 8
 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:29:09 +0100
 From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
 Subject: Getting OT - Microcontrollers, was Re: Remapping the HP150 

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  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. 

I find it easy to program my 'microcontroller' in machine code, though  
mine weighs 5 tons. But it really is as basic as a microcontroller,  
plus you program it in decimal unless you need to handle binary/hex/ 
octal data. It is not really possible to write a C compiler for it  
anyway.