I never saw this Propeller reference before
idbruce
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I just came across this.... I live a sheltered life.... http://www.parallax.com/propeller/qna/Default.htm#HomeTopics/HomePage.htm%3FTocPath%3D_____1
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We'll forgive you
That page is how I first learned the Propeller - it's how I weighed the pros/cons of using it vs other chips. It's an excellent resource!
What was the key feature that you liked the most. For me, it was the eight cores.
When I first discovered the Prop I thought 8 CPU's was great, but wait a minute, 500 odd instructions in them is obviously useless and impossible to program in a nice way.
It must have been another year before I thought that possibly, maybe, something can be done with this weird device.
It was only then that I began to see what a brilliant piece of engineering there is in the Prop architecture and Spin and PASM and the Prop Tool as an integrated whole.
When else have you seen one man's vision of a system from the transistors in the chip to the programming language and compiler to the development tool? Amazing!
Yep... He is an intelligent person.
The multicore architecture, definitely.
A recovering Hoosier,
-Phil
LOL I just wish I get to a place to start recovering. Especially today.... It is brutal outside.