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Originally posted by FotoPlasma
I've heard that teams will have the ability to use the same syntax as we've all been familiar with, for past years, in PBASIC. I assume this is a fall-back-plan for teams who can't cope with such a fundamental change, so quickly (possibly analogous to what some teams experienced with the introduction of an autonomous mode). What do you think the chances are that they (IFI) would use a product like a PICBasic compiler, rather than develop the translational software in-house?
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I would assume fairly high. IFI doesn't have that many employees and a complete redesign of the control system would take up a lot of those employees. There is the possiblity of them contracting it out however.
I think there may be a more likely solution in that software written in PBasic may run in an emulation layer on top of another processor. If the processor was significantly powerful (and frankly, it's not hard to get a cheap powerful processor these days), it wouldn't be too difficult to do that.
Another possibility is to just have two different chips on the board (both a Basic Stamp and some other mystery chip) and it's user selectable as to which one is used.
Matt