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Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 5 Nov 2003 19:15:19 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Chris Phillips wrote:
> This could be addressed on the existing hardware with a better programming
> environment. What I have in mind is a new NQC compiler that generates a
> firmware file instead of a bytecode file. So you would code in NQC (or
> something like it) and get the speed, performance, and full memory range
> available to BrickOS programmers.
I believe that is exactly what legOS does. It compiles your program and stores
it in the firmware area. legOS has no firmware, and it ignores the ROM code,
too. It accesses all the hardware directly.
That's my understanding, at least.
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| (...) Your understanding is correct. So why doesn't everybody use BrickOS? There are at least two reasons that I am aware of: 1. Many people, especially "non-programmers" find a full-blown C++ implementation to be intimidating and non-user-friendly. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) This could be addressed on the existing hardware with a better programming environment. What I have in mind is a new NQC compiler that generates a firmware file instead of a bytecode file. So you would code in NQC (or something like it) and (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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