From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:00:53 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <32682423cb8b88188034eb6fd611e1fd@plug.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <4CD5F934.2080705@gmx.net> <4CD69C49.5090209@gmx.net> <9f6f706b0da2fc0b208ad49c097a823b@brasstown.quanstro.net> <4CD6D235.3030704@gmx.net> <1ab89ced7625309d8c289292c4a4086c@brasstown.quanstro.net> <4CD6FFD4.9040502@gmx.net> <4CD74149.70406@gmx.net> <10b44bf2776c165127a8d10c5ece368a@plug.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] pcc limitation? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 79138366-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Just run Plan 9 on the hardware. Who wanted to create "Plan 9 from 8-bit > space"? Let's do it for AVR. > Then mount LEDs and the like... that's pretty impractical. letting alone the type hell one would have in porting a c compiler, i don't know of any 8 bit parts with an mmu, and the avr is especially difficult, being a harvard arch chip with program memory only in flash. a more fruitful approach would be to write an assembler and simulator, then an event loop to poll devices and serve an external interface (9p or simplier, depending on how stupid the chip is. :-)) which one could read from a machine with more brains, a plan 9 box. jeff sickel is working with pics and other tiny controllers. see the resonance tracking paper and slides at http://5e.iwp9.org/ and the work in progress at http://4e.iwp9.org/ - erik