Re: [Amforth-devel] Video quod vadis

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

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Christian Berger wrote:

> Well there is nothing new other what is on here. Yes, it now supports the 
> @-key. I'm still not very happy about the keyboard routines.
> http://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/94193

It would be nice if the keyboard words would work with EKEY from
the forth200x words. That would make code page changes very easy too.

> Hmm, maybe we could have block read and write commands. But for that we'd need 
> memory allocation words.

ALLOT exists ;=)

>>> If you add some kind of networking via I2C you can send a kind of e-mail.
>> There is even a ethernet connection possible (with IP etc). Hardware
>> exists.
> 
> TCP/IP needs a _lot_ of memory (800 bytes) and ethernet is not only rather 
> expensive, but it also takes quite a lot of power.

800 bytes is less than a single ANS block, and power is not essential as
long as a tv device is concerned ;=)

btw: On tuxgraphics there is an atmega88 with an ethernet interface and
a webserver running on it.

> My idea would be to have a 
> tiny stripped down networking protocoll which can work with tiny buffers.

Sound like you are looking for CAN.

Bye
Matthias

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