Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seeing as anyone who makes a new application specific chunk of > hardware (read: Zigbee) and doesn't know squat about micros always > picks an 8051 [...]
Perhaps this is the part that goes wrong in your decision chain? > Anyone heard murmurings about a Win8051(Gcc) project? That's not going to happen, I assume. It wouldn't be fun to port it. After all, what do you believe why AVR and MSP430 could find a market at all? Everybody was already using MCS51 and PIC anyway. But obviously, these ancient architectures have been designed for anything but not for making it easy to port a compiler to them. One could of course argue that none of the Intel chips has been designed to make a compiler writer's job easy and fun though... (except perhaps the true RISCs, i860/i960). i4004, i8008, i8080, 8086 -- from a compiler writer's point of view, they all suck. You'll constantly find yourself running out of registers. Add banked memory to it (MCS51), and you're messed up completely. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
