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Re: OT: New Beagle Board. $45

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: OT: New Beagle Board. $45
Date 2013-04-24 10:17 -0700
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Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> Really nice spec for a $45 single board Linux machine. Better than the
> Pi.

One interesting feature is that it has two real-time co-processors
(programmable realtime units or PRU's) that might be good Forth targets.
They are 32-bit non-pipelined RISC cores with 8k program memory and 8k
data memory, plus 12k of shared memory (I guess shared between the two
PRU's).  They are intended for uses like motor control.

It's interesting that the PRU's don't seem to support signed
arithmetic-they only have unsigned addition and subtraction.
They don't have multiplication either, i.e. they're not DSP's.

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OT: New Beagle Board. $45 Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-24 06:23 -0700
  Re: OT: New Beagle Board. $45 AKE <assadebrahim2000@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 08:41 -0700
    Re: OT: New Beagle Board. $45 rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 11:57 -0400
  Re: OT: New Beagle Board. $45 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-24 10:17 -0700

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