gnupic: Potential PIC project ?
Subject:
Potential PIC project ?
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Date:
31 Dec 2005 14:42:01 +0000
Message-Id: <20051231145725.8026D12B73A@mmi01.absamail.co.za>
Ser/Par-port to USB-based flash-mem-sticks ?
I still maintain that PIC users have been misled.
The basic PIC architecture [small memory space], only made
sense and was justified for SSI [was it 8, 12, 18 pin DIL - I've forgotten].
For the types of projects now handled by PIC, a 'proper' uProc, with
[not a Harvard architecture] a 16bit adr-space is cheaper.
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USB-based flash-mems have flooded the market, and are very
cost effective. Yet still many machines in use don't have USB ports.
Apparently the USB-based flash-mem-sticks are SCSI based.
Which will be replaced first [by USB]: ser [RS232] or par-port ?
I always thought of the par-port [centronics] as being the most
'universal', and that's why Iomega chose the make a par-port
external Zip-drive. Probably the par-port, even with minimum
input lines - 3 I think - is faster than RS232 ?
There could be a lot of users for [PIC based] adaptors for USB-flash.
Including a notebook, of my 4 machines only one has USB-ports.
So a main advantage of USB-flash tranporting data between
machines is not available. Diskette is becoming increasingly
unreliable and annoying ?
== Chris Glur.
