[fpc-devel] Re: FPC related fairy tale

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-devel at telemetry.co.uk
Fri Oct 19 09:25:30 CEST 2012


waldo kitty wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 13:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Sven Barth wrote:
>>
>>> But now the solution (I can't hold it back any longer myself ^^): 
>>> Pierre was
>>> right. M68k is BACK!
>>
>> Nicely done.
>>
>>> but I also plan to test Aranym (which emulates a M68040)
>>
>> I was impressed by it, unpretentious but effective. The only /real/ 
>> 68k I've got
>> is a Palm on alarm clock duty.
> 
> i assume that's a palm pilot? if so damn, that's sad for a device that 
> lead the PID revolution :?

Yes, a IIIe I scrounged. I believe there's a Pascal compiler for it but
I've never tried running it.

I believe that the Palms were at one time popular as a "brain" for
mobile robot experiments, programmed using a larger system and
orchestrating commands to microcontrollers.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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