Re: PIC18Forth tester feed back.

David McNab <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.gnupic
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for that.

If you look at pic18forth, you'll see that it can be configured for
anything from single wheel wheelbarrow to large air-conditioned tractor.

I hear your concerns about simplicity. But there are situations where
on-pic software needs a lot of functionality- eg LCD-based user
interfaces, host serial links, controlling other pics etc.

Cheers
David


[email protected] wrote:
> As expected from the author, the Pic18Forth documentation is immaculte.
> And it is not hidden that a lot of facilities are needed to test it.
> 
> And when I read Chen Xiao Fan's recent post:
>  Mini Howto: Microchip tools under Linux with Wine,
> I really [more so] believe that these tasks are bloating out of control.
> 
> IMO pic made sense as a 18-pin [maximum] DIL.
> And since 'pic asm' leads to using many macros, and forth is 'like'
> the ultimate macro-multiplyer/controller, and a picforth with
> IMO an 'appropriate minimalist view' was available I tried it.
> 
> Right now I'm afraid to open up the PIC18Forth project.
> I've never yet even run python.
> 
> A [single wheel] wheel-barrow is a marvelous tool.
> But it you start modifying/refining it to ape a luxury passenger
> vehicle, it becomes inappropriate/absurd.
> 
> Isn't pic following this inappropriate route ?
> 
> == Chris Glur.
> 
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