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(...) Sounds good Steve, see notes below for some pointers... (...) Absolutely. All we have to do is enable the interrupts on the receiver throw the chars into a buffer. I'd keep the standard FORTH words that already exist so less system source (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Actually that's what I was intending but I couldn't remember the words at my keyboard. To make debugging easier I will use parallel words that can be merged in later. I was going to use the following debugging strategy: Put the isr init in a (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) It's amazing, but I get all kinds of comments on how it's impossible to debug systems like the RCX brick. I guess if you're used to deeply embedded systems, figuring out how to let it tell you what's going on is a big part of the magic... (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) I'm not suggesting that it isn't hard. Compared to native debugging with printf and gdb in an emacs window it is quite hard. It's just that you build up a bag of tricks after a while or take up application development instead. :-) One of the (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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