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    Lingo —Samuel Winchenbach
   Sorry to make so many posts here! I am a little confused by some of the lingo I see flying around... so I am going to make a number of questions... #1) In windows, why do we need to download binutils, gcc, and the scripts... what do they all do? #2) (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
   
        Re: Lingo —Samuel Winchenbach
     I forgot one.... arg #9) What do the patches do that come with the build script? there are two of them.... (...) scripts... (...) cross (...) together, (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
   
        Re: Lingo —Max Bowsher
     (...) A mailing list without any posts isn't much use :-) (...) gcc is the compiler, and it uses the binutils tools. The build script just automates the several commands you would otherwise have to type. (...) Yep. You need a compiler that creates (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: Lingo —Samuel Winchenbach
     (...) once (...) site for it anywhere. gcc 3.0.4 was ubdated earlier this year... This whole relationship between gcc and EGCS is very confusing, especially when www.freshmeat.net doesnt even have egcs available! (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: Lingo —John A. Tamplin
      (...) EGCS was an offshoot of GCC, with the only difference being how the developers worked together (the bazaar vs. the cathedral model). Eventually, EGCS was declared the victor as most developers switched to it and it became the official GCC (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
    
         Re: Lingo —Max Bowsher
     No, sorry if I was confusing. EGCS is now obsolete. See (URL) and (URL) Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Winchenbach" <swinchen@eece.maine.edu> To: <lugnet.robotics.rcx...ugnet.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Lingo (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
   
        somewhat off topic, but... —Kenneth Johansen
   anyone tried pbforth ? im doing a comparison between the different possibilities here and looking at pbforth i was somewhat intrigued, until i discovered that you cannot multitask(more than 1 thread of execution). anyone here tried pbforth and can (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
   
        RE: somewhat off topic, but... —Ralph Hempel
     Kenneth, (...) I wrote it so I'm biased... (...) I'll get to the ttasker in a minute, but pbForth is the only alternative firmware with native support for SERVOS if you use the simple circuit I developed here: (URL) The newest version 2.1.3 has an (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
    
         Re: somewhat off topic, but... —David Rojas
     Repost to proper newsgroup... ===...=== I'm NOT biased because I DIDN'T write the thing... Forth is a wonderful language that has a proven track record. I don't use it in my job simply because management has never heard about it. I don't mean to (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        Re: somewhat off topic, but... —David Rojas
   I'm NOT biased because I DIDN'T write the thing... Forth is a wonderful language that has a proven track record. I don't use it in my job simply because management has never heard about it. I don't mean to imply that languages are chosen by (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 

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