Custom Program for a factory computer

[Eric Aos]

Yea, that's what I was thinking. Mass produced/debugged Hardware with
custom software. Are you saying that a program could be written in C,
and compiled with the GNU tools to run a 730?

>
>  I'm working on something close. What I've been doing is writting
> a macro preprocessor and getting some C like snytax going. There is a 
> port of the GNU tool train at
> 
http://home.worldnet.fr/stcarrez/m68hc11_port.html

> I thought the gm ecm would make an excellent general 
>purpose PLC/microcontroller