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Re: About firmwares
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:49:11 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Steve Baker) writes:
> Juergen Stuber wrote:
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> NQC isn't "firmware" - it uses the standard Lego firmware and
> just generates the same kind of 'bytecode' output that the Lego
> programming environment produces
Yes, it's easier to use than Lejos, no doubt about it.
> ...what's *great* about it is
> that it allows you to write (not-quite) C programs
I think it's "not quite" in the control structures
but "very little" in the data structures.
> without having to mess with replacing the firmware.
It's not that hard to replace the firmware, and with
the Lejos firmware you get a really nice voltage display
for free ;-)
Jürgen
--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
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| (...) Yes...and no...the control structures (which include parallelism) are somewhat more than C has in *some* ways - but you are certainly right about data structures - which are limited to 16 bit integers and (with version 2.x firmware) small (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That's what I'd expect. (...) Yes - I doubt that you really *need* all that performance on something like a Lego robot - particularly given the relatively limited amount of memory in the beast. (...) Just to clarify: NQC isn't "firmware" - it (...) (25 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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