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Re: Programming FAQ

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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
To answer another part of you question, there is no OS on the robot controller. It is a microchip which understands C and assembler. Search, Read documents and get a feel of what our robot controller(microchip product) is. Its might not be such a good idea to try to go as far and put Linux on there or something, Search, Read documents you can find and you will get a feel.

-Bharat
Not quite. The controller doesn't understand C or ASM actually, the compiler and linker turns these languages into machine code which the controller can understand. It works just like any other processor in that way.

I believe another thread on this forum is porting RTOS to the microcontroller.
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