[time-nuts] I want a good micro-controller

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Sat Aug 23 20:56:33 EDT 2008


Robert Vassar wrote:

> As a member of the "brain damaged by Basic" generation, I mostly  
> agree with Bill's comments regarding it's use. Yet I still keep the  
> public domain 8052AH-BASIC image in my '51 code directory, and have  
> fond memories of it's use.  The PIC is not alone in propagating that  
> mistake, though they seem to be the last.

Microchip never made the STAMP.  That was Parallax.  They wrote a BASIC
interpreter for the PIC, and sold a PIC that was preprogrammed with the
BASIC interpreter.  They still do: http://www.parallax.com/tabid/295/Default.aspx

-Chuck Harris



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