Internal Watchdog

[jglenn]

I had not heard about the PIC32 so looked it up:

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2607

I would be shocked if they got away from the classic 33 instructions!
Maybe they just added some.

That thing is way to powerful for any of my needs. I have to hire C programmers for big projects anyway.

The 8 bitters are fine for my hobby projects. Trying to get to fire up my picaxes, time is short until the end of year. Lots of double time right now.

It seems like many here have backgrounds in more powerful computing means.
The PICAXE is a form of relaxation compared to mainframes or even mini's.

As far as the DEC, I knew a Romanian who used VAXs to control fly by wire systems in Soviet made fighters! How in the heck did they get them?
The joke used to be that the average video game console (64 bit chip), was more powerful than the typical Russian weapon system computer....

Ho ho ho.

 

[hippy]

Ruskies and VAXes; that takes me back. Without looking up on t'internet, I recall it was all to do with CoCom restrictions ( limiting technology exports to communist countries ), and some country was allowed VAXes and they passed them on or Russia got them by some other means, reversed engineered and cloned them