[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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