Re: [9fans] pcc limitation?

[Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>]

Anyone considering things like that should also be familiar with the "Styx on a Brick" work, where the Vita Nuova guys stuck a Styx interface on a Lego mindstorm controller brick. The interface layering from the raw serial interface up through something which you wrote times to (and the clickable GUI on top of that) remains a really great illustration.

On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:00, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

>> 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