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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : MM BASIC For the new P2 Propeller?

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Tinine
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Posted: 10:50pm 17 Dec 2018
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Towards the end of page 14, they remark that it would be nice to have an interactive BASIC interpreter.
It really would be cool to have MM BASIC running the show with eight separate
processors running code compiled with their new Basic compiler or C/Spin/PASM.

http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1458072#Comment_1458072
 
JohnS
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Posted: 06:24pm 19 Dec 2018
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Looks a swine to port to, not least due to the lack of clear information about it (I waded through far too much of the documentation wondering why it had to be so hard).

Of course, they could ask Geoff for the source and a deal...

John
 
Tinine
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Posted: 04:16am 20 Dec 2018
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  JohnS said  

Of course, they could ask Geoff for the source and a deal...

John


This has been discussed in another thread.

Nothing "hard" about this architecture. It's actually a fantastic concept. There is nothing out there to touch it.

Robotics and CNC are hot topics, right? Well REAL robots and CNC machines don't employ Mickey-mouse open-loop stepper motors, they use closed loop servo-motors with encoder feedback.
So which MM device can directly handle this? None! The P2 can do hard real-time WITHOUT a single interrupt and every pin is a "smart-pin" that amongst other things can directly decode quadrature counts.

This is a very small example of what this device is capable of.

 
JohnS
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So as I posted if they want MMBasic they can just ask Geoff.

Let us know when this amazing thing is available with MMBasic.

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Posted: 12:18am 23 Dec 2018
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There was (is ?) a version of Basic for the Propeller.
Doesn't seem big @ Parallax though .....
 
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