Hijacking OEM hardware

[Steve Baldwin]

> As far as a '552 not being powerful enough, I disagree wildly!

I guess that since the '552 was designed for exactly this application,
someone thought it was suitable.
If you go way back, there was a lot of discussion on what to base the
EFI332 project on.
IIRC, GNU tools was one major advantage. The other was that everybody
wanted to do something different and the CPU32 core plus the TPU would
leave a whole heap of CPU left over for monitoring and experimenting. That,
and the fact that the people that actually got off their butt and did
something, were of the '332 camp. :-)

> The reason I chose the '552 was that I could get a single board
> computer with 8 channels of 8 bit A/D, an LCD driver, a C
> compiler, an Assembler, a keyboard interface, 128K of ROM, 4 K
> RAM and plenty of digital I/O for $89.

That's a pretty good deal. Where's that from ? What's the C compiler ?

Steve.

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