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Re: newbie with a board
- From: John Clark <j1clark at ucsd dot edu>
- To: Bob Koninckx <bob dot koninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
- Cc: Abrar H Hazarika <abrar at ECOMSCIENCE dot COM>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:34:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] newbie with a board
Am Mittwoch, 23.04.03, um 03:21 Uhr (US/Pacific) schrieb Bob Koninckx:
reason being that you 'd have to start porting the GNU compiler to it
first. And that's still considered to be _hard_ for anything else but
32
or 64 bit architectures.
So, I can't get eCos up for my PDP-11's... then there's the Z80,
which I had totoally forgotten about for the most part, and yet
about a month ago someone asked for a quote which involved
a Z80 20-years-later-part which have a variety of I/O devices
and a chip cost of under $5 US... there was a kernel and an
TCP/IP stack available... pretty much shocked me out of
my complacient ideas about how long processors can live.
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