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(...) The optimum solution would be both - provide a new API that gets the most out of the new firmware, but an optional "compatability layer" that adds what is necessary to provide an API compatable with the RCX. Note that I'd vote to get the new (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As the brick, sensor, motors... are quite different, direct portability is not of paramount importance for me. So I vote for performance. Philo (20 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I like this concept, but what if in the case of NQC the new firmware turns out to be such a radically different design that it makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to carry over very much of the rather large API built into NQC to (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <snippage> (...) Ed, can you point me to the sort of things you have read which make you believe the NXT software and its underlying firmware will provide the sort of control and flexibility which such things as NQC and alternate firmwares (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Great article, with some good pictures. Also online at: (URL) a sidebar on Lego Factory, Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 BAYLUG (20 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)
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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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