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Re: legOS and alternate operating systems [now off topic]
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Mon, 4 Jan 1999 13:21:34 GMT
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Original-From:
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James Taylor <jtaylor@emba.uvm.edu*avoidspam*>
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Simply enough, it DOESN'T take an awful lot of computer resource to
program the RCX. You could write a very simple single target (h8) c
compiler for it that would be quite small. However building a cross target
binutils and egcs compiler for ANY target includes a lot of tools that you
don't absolutely need, but which can be nice to have. It is a VERY
complete development suite.
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 MwalimuB@aol.com wrote:
> Actually, how big the executable is depends on the compiler. I don't do C,
> but, in other compilers this is the case. For instance, Turbo BASIC would
> produce a 47Kb executable of "hello world" because it links a library of
> subroutines that for the most part won't be used. ASIC, another BASIC
> compiler, writes the same program in less than 100 bytes - basically the
> string "hello world <CRLF>" and a BIOS call.
>
> My point has been that it seems that it takes an awful lot of computer
> resource to program an 8 bit microcomputer. I was just wondering if there was
> a reason for this. It appears that the reason is the overhead needed for the
> overblown operating systems on our newer computers.
>
> chris
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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