In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ulrich Bangert" writes: Hi Ulrich,
That's a very interesting project. I only have one comment: While the Beck SC12 looks like a fantastic solution etc, I have always ended up regretting using that sort of microcontroller. First off, it has no mass-storage, so I need to ship my measurements over to some other computer in order to be able to analyse long term trends and so on, so there went the "stand alone" aspect out of the door. Second, a 80186 is non-protected mode, which means that when things go bad, you get absolutely no clues to what went bad first you only get one bit of information to debug from: It all went pear-shaped really fast. Third, it doesn't have enough computing power to do all the tasks well. One of them: maybe, two of them: almost, three or above: abyssmall. Instead I have started using microcontrollers for the real work, and then I put a soekris computer next to it to do all the high order stuff and collect long term data. That way I can fiddle with the high order stuff without disturbing the real-time stuff, and I have plenty of CPU power for both. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
