Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day!

From	Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject	Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day!
Date	2012-03-26 02:35 -0700
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On Mar 26, 3:34 am, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> dirk.bru...@usa.net writes:
> > : VARIABLE <BUILDS VARIABLE-OFFSET @ DUP 2+
> >    VARIABLE-OFFSET ! VAR           + DUP , ! DOES> @ ;
> > That was for me the easiest way to deal with this problem back then.
>
> OK, but I'm still confused about one issue: what happens with a normal
> colon definition, like
>
>    : square ( n -- n ) dup * ;
>
> Does that manage to compile a few bytes of code and headers into flash,
> i.e. does the chip support updating individual flash bytes?  I thought
> the usual way flash worked was you have to write a whole page at a time,
> with the pages tending to be large.
>
> It will be great if they make those FRAM parts in DIP format.  The
> so-called "value line" is a bit disappointing since even the more
> powerful, non "value" chips are still nice and small compared with the
> 32-bit stuff that's out there now.

It's not flash. It's ferro-RAM. You can write to it (at the byte
level) as much as you want. Knock yourself out :-)

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10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-12 13:05 -0700
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2012-03-12 22:01 +0100
    Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 14:08 -0700
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 14:11 -0700
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 14:14 -0700
  Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 14:51 -0700
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      Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-13 00:55 -0700
        Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-13 01:36 -0700
          Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-13 07:10 -0700
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          Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-13 19:42 -0700
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                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-23 15:32 +0000
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                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-23 10:43 -0700
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                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 19:34 -0700
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                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! dirk.bruehl@usa.net - 2012-03-25 20:17 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 21:31 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! cas_news@strotmann.de (Carsten Strotmann (Usenet)) - 2012-03-26 08:57 +0200
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-26 01:10 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 02:55 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 03:05 -0700
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                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-26 02:35 -0700
                Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day! Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-26 02:44 -0700
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