Exactly, interrupts are a must. If we get something that has a word size greater than eight bits, floating point math shouldn't be necessary. An LCD would be so sweet, but would probably cost more than FIRST is willing to throughput. But yea, i will be somewhat saddened if the new RC doesn't have more speed and support for some kinda of multi-tasking, be it interrupts or a multi-threaded OS... Linux maybe?? Haha.
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Originally posted by Rickertsen2
OOOO My favorite topic. I just pray to we get something with interrupts, direct access to processor pins, a lot more speed, floating point math and a Real LCD would be nice. You know things are falling behind, when many teams simply have the RC acting as a slave to an outboard processor. I have said this many times before, but i would like either a BasicAtom, JStamp, OOPIC, or BASICX. Really i have even seen sub $100 386SX class embedded computers. (okay now im just dreaming i know first would never give us that much flexibility.)
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