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Article #1238Re: Microchip buys Hi-Tech Software
From: John Devereux
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:48
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:48
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Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> writes: > 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. Yes, all good GCC targets, and all now mostly used as microcontroller or embedded microprocessor cores. -- John Devereux
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