Re: Terry's DRSSTC - Class Of Operation?

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Terry,
You're right about the 6502 in the C64. My brother worked for a software 
company in Silicon Valley way back when and wrote many games in assembly 
language on that processor for the Commodore. He then went to work for a 
modem company writing drivers for the same processor in their modems. Man, 
we've come a long way, BABY!!!

All my assembly programming was on the Intel processors in IBM PC's. It's 
been so long ago now that I can hardly remember a thing about it. What a 
shame. Do you think it is like riding a bike? Maybe if I try, it will all 
come back to me! Later.
Paul
Think Positive

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Subject: Re: Terry's DRSSTC - Class Of Operation?

> Original poster: Terry Fritz 
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>
> Hi,
>
> I used to program the 6502 in machine language on OSI machines in the
> 70's  Two bonus points to those that know who OSI is ;-))  I still have the
> computer, but it might be worth more than all my modern PCs now :o))
>
> I think the C64 used the 6502 as well...
>
> But the little Rabbit RC3610 is more powerful by far and fits on one's
> thumb with all the ram, rom, I/O and runs $50...  It is C programmed and
> can do full IEEE math as well as web and ethernet applications... Plus I
> have three that I am not using for anything ;-))  One just has 128k/250k
> memory :-p but "maybe" it could handle this control thing :o)))
>
> But for now, the basic stamp works fine.  I programmed it last night to
> select from up to six programs so it can run all kinds of modes without
> reprogramming...  So I can run as just a "plain" coil or the 6000 BPS
> machine.  Maybe tonight I will get to test the super high BPS stuff.  If
> that looks cool, I may have to thing about making a super computer
> controller...
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
>
> At 05:12 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote:
>>Hi Dave,
>>
>>Now that sounds like a fun project idea!  I have a couple of old Apple
>>II+'s hanging around that still work.  Overclock it and if it takes a hit,
>>no great loss.
>>
>>David E Weiss
>>
>>>Original poster: <mailto:Davetracer@xxxxxxx>Davetracer@xxxxxxx
>>>Personally I'd be tempted to try a 6502 processor. The thing is darn near
>>>a RISC, gets stuff done in 1-3 cycles, and is now available in up to 20
>>>Mhz versions. You can code in assembly or use many a different language
>>>for it. (6502's are commonly used as dedicated micros in modems to do
>>>stuff like on-the-fly compression).
>>>
>>>     -- thanks,
>>>
>>>     Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>