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From: Jasen Betts
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:48

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On 2009-03-14, John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> wrote:
> Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:39:50 +0000, John Devereux wrote:
>>
>>>> GCC for microcontrollers has never been as good as the best commercial 
>>>> compilers in code size or performance...
>>> 
>>> Ah, but we are now in an era where the "microcontrollers" of today
>>> have the cores of the 32 bit processors that GCC was written for.
>>
>> Do you think that 8-bit uCs are about to disappear?
>
> No, but the sub-thread thread was about the PIC32, which (AIUI) is
> based on a MIPS core. MIPS was designed for *high-end workstations* in
> the 80's, wasn't it? Now it's in a "PIC"!

M68K was used in small un*x servers.

ARM started out on the desktop too.

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