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Re: CPU's and boards for hobbyists?

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>>>>> Ole Christensen <ole2@oboj.net> writes:
>>>>> On 2012-11-15 09:25, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>>>>> Erik Holter <erikbholter@hotmail.com> writes:

[...]

 >>> Or maybe someone just enjoys soldering their own computer and the
 >>> feeling when it's booted for the first time (if it boots...)?

 >> Well, as long as 8-bit architectures are concerned, my current
 >> preference are AVR MCU's.

 > What You could have missed is that this are the comp.os.cpm news
 > group and the people who buy such a card maybe want to run CP/M
 > operation system and program on these boards, ... (?)

	Or, perhaps, to run the software available for CP/M.  Or,
	perhaps, to port it.  From which, the question of the available
	platforms to consider porting to doesn't seem all that far
	fetched.  Or does it?

	Another motivation already noted (as it seems) in this thread is
	that working with such a hardware platform may have certain
	educational value.  Which also brings the question of what other
	options are available.

	Anyway, this is Usenet, and the discussions tend to drift away
	and into off-topic.  So, should a participant find his or her
	follow-up inappropriate for one or more of the newsgroups, he
	or she still has the liberty to drop them (from either
	Newsgroups: or Followup-To:) as necessary.

 > The AVR are great controllers, ... and to control Your home railway,
 > the light on the Christmas-tree or whatever it could be the way to
 > go, ...

	Yes.

[...]

 >> The cons. is that these employ the Harvard architecture, and thus
 >> implementing a "conventional" 8-bit OS on such an MCU would be
 >> challenging at best.

 >> (And why, I've just ordered an Arduino Uno rev. 3 board.)

 > But not to run CP/M on i guess, ...?

	Yes.  But there, I've commented rather to the "someone just
	enjoys ... feeling when it's booted for the first time..." bit.

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