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legOS and alternate operating systems
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:39:25 GMT
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mwalimub@aol.com#AntiSpam#
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Why is the software associated with development so big? 70 megabytes for the
legOs development system? I think there is something fundamental I'm missing
here.
The RCX is an H8, an 8 bit micro, certainly no more complicated than a 68HC11.
Even the more complicated development packages are under 1 megabyte. Is a lot
of the program GUI? It might be I'm spoiled by DOS. I just don't see why
it's so big.
chris
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: legOS and alternate operating systems
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| Hi Chris, the problem is not the tool size. On any UNIX system, standard libraries, a shell and a perl distribution - which you only need for nicer disassembly, anyway - are givens. The problem is that Windows chooses to provide 24-bit color (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: legOS and alternate operating systems
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| lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote in message <7c785915.368a2d0d@aol.com>... (...) the (...) missing (...) The 70MB includes an awful lot of stuff - the C/C++ cross-compilers, native compilers, debuggers, utilities such as make, tcl, awk, sed, ... and (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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