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Re: Stoked

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Stoked
Date 2015-11-12 13:18 -0800
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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> This discussion is not really going anywhere.  You are picturing a
> very simple system that is self contained (of questionable value) with
> limited functionality as your entire development system.  You don't
> seem to appreciate the need for inter-working, communication or backup
> et. al.  Constructing a full blown development system is a big deal.
> That's why no one does it.  They use computers running an OS with tons
> of support software.

1. Back in the day (before my time) real development was done on such
systems and people gushed about how productive it was.  I have my doubts
but it sounds interesting.

2. I don't actually see such a system as the entire development
environment for complicated applications.  I see writing the app using a
PC and installing it on the little board along with the pure Forth dev
environment, and delivering it that way to users.  The users could then
configure and modify the code if they wanted, without needing specific
PC software.  This seems like a reasonable way to (e.g.) set parameters
or put in small patches, that might involve rebuilding the interpreter.
They could also use a PC environment if the internal Forth stuff got to
be too constraining.

> To me "PC" includes whatever platform you are running including a cell
> phone.  What software are you imagining?  There typically has to be a
> terminal emulator and a flash burner.  

There are terminal emulators for everything, e.g. type "terminal
emulator android" into a search engine.  There would be in-circuit
programming, so no flash burner.  There would have to be a way to
upload/download the flash contents through the terminal port, as hex
dumps or whatever, so you could back it up, use source control, etc.

>> my ARM board is in France... I'd rather... code the
>> non-hardware-specific parts as much as possible without the hardware.
>> I don't even own one of those fancy MSP430 boards at the moment.
> I'm not sure why there would be hardware specific stuff.  Isn't this
> under an OS?  Do they even let you access the hardware?

Sorry, two things conflated.  1) the ARM board runs Linux and I
basically use it as a small dedicated server, no special hardware.  I
might try to run Mecrisp on it (there is a Linux port) but am not yet
doing that.  2) The MSP430 (my app target) has no OS.  The idea is to
write the app under Linux or under emulation, then port it to the
Launchpad.

> That's great, but how "total" can it be?  Won't it need a PC to
> provide storage, etc?  How does the user back up the info and
> propagate it to other units?

Most terminal emulators have ways to upload and download files.  And
those boards are quite powerful!  The original Macintosh had 128k of ram
and a 400k floppy and 64k of rom, so a lot can be done with those
resources.

> The board appears to have no I/O and very little board level
> documentation. I guess the MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV is more like what I
> need.  I would probably port Mecrisp to it if I can figure out what
> CPU it uses and how to use it.

The cpu uses a MIPS-descended architecture with a more compact
instruction set.  There is a GCC port for it.  You'll have to retarget
the Mecrisp compiler but that is probably doable.

You want to look up ESP8266, the chip type.  There are a lot of other
boards using it, including Chinese ones for around $2 each on ebay.  You
could also look at the Adafruit Huzzah breakout page
(www.adafruit.com/products/2471) which might point to better docs.  The
Huzzah board runs Lua I think someone even got Micropython running on
the 8266.  www.esp8266.com has a lot of other info about these systems.

Espressif is doing a follow-on to the 8266 that has both wifi and
Bluetooth:

  http://hackaday.com/2015/07/13/new-part-day-the-esp8266-killer/

The Mecrisp port for that one might be easier, since it uses a Cortex M4
core.

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