[Coco] Kicking the Z-80 butts...

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Apr 28 16:15:42 EDT 2015



On Tuesday 28 April 2015 15:39:24 Mathieu Chouinard wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 April 2015 15:18:02 didier derny wrote:
> >> Yes nice processor, probably the best 8 bits processor ever made,
> >> system and user stack, position independent code,
> >> very easy assembler
> >> And apparently 2 6809 can run simultaneously
> >>
> >> I'm not absolutely sure, but I think in the superpet the 6809 and
> >> the 6502 can run simultaneously too
> >>
> >> The arm is nice too :)  reminds me a 6502 by some side :)
> >
> > The arm cortex is making waves in the industrial CNC machinery
> > category. The BeagleBone Black is now running linuxcnc, in some
> > aspects better than the X86 stuff is doing it, making use of the
> > BBB's cluster of simple programmable units, 32 of them I believe. 
> > Capable of driving stepper motors with a 10 microsecond heartbeat.
> > That is about 2.5x faster than I can, and faster than the
> > opto-isolators commonly used to isolate the cpu's I/O from being
> > blasted to smitherines by the back emf of a higher powered stepper.
>
> /me is looking at the 30+ arm based boards laying around his office
> ...
>
Sorry Newcastle, I suspect you already have a sufficient supply of 
coals. :)
>
>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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