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(...) NeXT Software was the company, NeXTcube and NeXTstation were the two machines, and NeXTSTEP was the OS. After Apple acquired NeXT (it's more the other way around, actually), a lot of the NeXTSTEP features carried over into Mac OS X, such as (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Steve, do you think TLG would object to leJOS NeXT? Legally I it should be okay, since I don't think people can trademark a common word like 'Next'. I'm not sure if capitalization of letters matters with regards to trademarks though. Someone (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) I've also been involved as a coach/mentor since FLL was introduced to our small country. And as a matter of fact I even won the Adult Coach/Mentor Award last year (URL) soon as I can get hold of one of the Mindstorms NXT, I would ask the kids (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Didn't say it was! :-)! (...) Bingo! (...) I'm running it now and its quite a nice little OS. Like we both said, the real work is just asking tasks to manage the specific resources of the NXT. (...) Again, totally agree (as I stated in my last (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The processor speed (even underclocked) will not be an issue. There real issue which I see many people have talked about is the amount of memory will be in the NXT. On the website for uCOS-II there is a RAM calculation (for the Intel 80x86 (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Regular browsers of Brickshelf might have noticed that I added a new track plans section to my gallery: (URL) the 9V folder (URL) there are useful modules such as Curves (URL) and Double Bends (URL) , conforming to various minimum radii depending on (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Would you like to join our project? :) We're still in planning/design mode, so additional input is always good. (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) ... (...) As it turns out, I just started on a project like that. I intentionally went out of my way to avoid using the letters N, X, & T right NeXT to each other. My totally unofficial opinion would be something like this. There's not much (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Is the RCX.NET project's name technically a trademark violation? I just started working with José David Parra on a redesign of his original namespace, so now maybe he'll have to rename it, too. :) What's LEGO's position on code namespaces, (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Steve. At least Lego made it easy for us to play around with the letters to come up with a new name, as Philo mentioned in this thread. :) - Brian (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) power) and has 64k of memory. How much runtime state can you really process with 64k after the kernel and sensor/motor processes are loaded? Maybe more than I think... Btw, thanks for the document! The current paradigm in RTOS design seems to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) hey thanks dave hopefully i can run some tests as soon as my new rcx arrives. but i'll give it a shot. i'll be posting any progress so u'll know how it goes LeE (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'll add it to my tool belt if it'll run on Linux ;) I certainly don't mean to slight the NXT software (I haven't even played with it yet). I assume it will be quite capable. (...) Indeed. Programming languages are simply tools. They should be (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very good point! So one design goal/guiding principle would be try not to break brickOS programs for NXT and provide if nessecary a easy software upgrade path. (...) I would really like to point out (to the general audience) what I see as a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I would be in favor of having a port of BrickOS for NXT (instead of having another thing to learn). I'm not gonna throw away my RCXs and I would prefer having similar languages for both bricks. Yes programmers would need to know the nuances (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Alexander, What you are describing seems more like an end application (multiple autonomous robots that do X and Y and can communicate using Bluetooth) then an RTOS design. An analogy of your description of using the NXT processor for just the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No, as explained Steve, that's bad... Why not the easy one: leJOS Next? Philo (20 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Brian, LEGO posted a very nice message on Lugnet about this a couple years ago, after a news story came out, questioning TLG's approach to such things. (URL) short, the answer will be no. I'm sure they'll be quick to put NXT right next to RCX (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi John, hi Philo :) John thanks for your post :) I didn' t take much time to program this robot (on video you can only see random moves)...but did you know which soft I use??....BricxCC....of course!!!! regards Chris from France (20 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, as a guy who continuously puts 9 volt conenctions on the sensor ports on the RCX (LDCC--love ya lots!!!), what you have to do is separate the wires connecting the RC port and the RCX sensor port with light bricks-- (URL) down until you (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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