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Subject: 
RE: idea for firmware development
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:05:18 GMT
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Brian wrote:

As long as we're talking freeware spirit.ocx
replacement, how about this: freeware reimplementation
of the Lego firmware itself. Not so much like LegOS,
more the idea of creating a bytecode-compatible open
source firmware package that is extensible in ways
that Lego might take a year or more to get to.

Hmmm, kind of like pbForth...

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at:
<http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbFORTH>
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As long as we're talking freeware spirit.ocx replacement, how about this: freeware reimplementation of the Lego firmware itself. Not so much like LegOS, more the idea of creating a bytecode-compatible open source firmware package that is extensible (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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