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Telstar5

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Microcontrollers?
« on: September 29, 2009, 10:09:29 AM »
Anyone here ever played with microcontrollers? They're chips that have a CPU, ROM and RAM in one package.

I'm thinking about saving up for a development kit and making some sort of low-level OS work on it. I know that there's one I can get for £70 that lets you write for the chip in C and Basic, and I've written some ideas for writing an OS in Basic, but I'm not entirely convinced it would work. How would you handle input and output? You'd need a terminal. I don't even know if they make terminals anymore.
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Re: Microcontrollers?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2009, 03:37:05 PM »
I have a feeling that making a retro OS and getting it to work would take a ton of time and effort...
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Re: Microcontrollers?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2009, 06:25:36 PM »
What's wrong with doing it for fun? :P It would be interesting to see how far you could push such a small system.

Also, I found out that a lot of electric typewriters came with serial ports so you could connect it to a computer and use it as a terminal. That's one problem solved, I guess.
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