Re: Forth on the Maximite

From	Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Forth on the Maximite
Date	2011-04-17 23:01 +1000
Organization	The Australian Public Access Network Association
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>> [..] There's hardly any point GPL'ing the Maximite system for other
>> developers to poke at, if they're stuck with Windows development
>> boxes with License servers, and you've got legal obligations and
>> risks from the runtime [..]

> To compile the source, he wrote "You should install Microchip MPLAB
> IDE V8.56 or later and Microchip C32 C Compiler V1.11B Student (or
> Lite) version".

idem

 > But Andrew convinced me that the PIC32 on the MAXIMITE would be a
 > good choice, because this micro has a MIPS CPU, not the old GI
 > architecture, and there is no ARM microprocessor available at that
 > low price with that high amount of memory (512k program, 128k RAM),
 > UART/SPI/I2C, RTCC, 16 AD channels, 5 Timers/PWM, USB/CAN/ ETHERNET,
 > 8 DMA's, and only 64 pins. Without a Forth it is worthless for me.

Much the same motiviation here, although with experience handbumming
MIPS assembler and doing bare-metal embedded development with GNU's
tools. The MMBasic setup is a great idea, and follows in the tradition
of Australia's local microcomputer projects (ETI660, MiniScamp, Applied
Technology, Applix1616..) but the system is begging for more powerful
choices and for its owners to provide them. The hard dependency on MPLAB
and non-free libraries kills it for me though.

-- 
Chris

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Forth on the Maximite Andrew Reid <andrewreid69@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 12:47 -0700
  Re: Forth on the Maximite Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-07 13:21 -0700
    Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-10 20:32 -0700
      Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 08:13 -0700
        Re: Forth on the Maximite anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-11 15:37 +0000
          Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-11 14:00 -0700
            Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-11 15:42 -0700
              Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-11 21:35 -0700
            Re: Forth on the Maximite anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-04-12 11:20 +0000
              Re: Forth on the Maximite Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-04-12 18:07 +0200
        Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-11 11:48 -0700
      Re: Forth on the Maximite Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-12 00:17 -0700
        Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-12 10:19 -0700
          Re: Forth on the Maximite Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-16 12:50 -0700
            Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-16 15:05 -0700
              Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 15:34 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-16 16:37 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 16:55 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-16 17:41 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 14:38 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-17 21:08 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2011-04-17 14:14 -0500
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-17 14:08 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2011-04-18 04:00 -0500
      Re: Forth on the Maximite Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> - 2011-04-16 20:12 +1000
        Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 15:36 -0700
          Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-16 17:06 -0700
            Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 14:15 -0700
              Re: Forth on the Maximite Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-18 18:12 +0000
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-18 11:15 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 21:44 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-19 00:23 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 07:23 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-19 10:24 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 12:22 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-19 16:14 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 00:08 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2011-04-20 10:46 +0000
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-20 14:55 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-21 20:24 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-21 21:02 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-21 23:09 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2011-04-22 08:42 -0400
                Re: Forth on the Maximite BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-04-22 07:06 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-22 12:18 -0700
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-04-20 04:07 -0500
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2011-04-19 19:05 +0000
                Re: Forth on the Maximite Micke <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 12:00 -0700
        Re: Forth on the Maximite Bluebee <visualforth@rocketmail.com> - 2011-04-16 15:52 -0700
          Re: Forth on the Maximite Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> - 2011-04-17 23:01 +1000
      Re: Forth on the Maximite Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-21 19:52 -0700
    Re: Forth on the Maximite Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-10 21:58 -0700

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