Re: Paul was right

At 03:59 PM 7/24/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Yeah, I'm doing that "follow up to myself" thing again... ;-)
>
>>Omega Race strikes me as being a little Atmel 2051 microcontroller that
>>just parallel outputs the grey-code from a lookup table using the
>>quadrature inputs as an input to an internal counter for a pointer.
>
>Just had to point out to Zonn that I switched microcontrollers for this
>one. A PIC would probably be cheaper actually, but I like the 8051's
>ability to deal with lookup tables without jumping through hoops. (and the
>2051 is just pretty cool, IMHO. Flash memory, small DIP package, 8051 code
>compatible, we have a bunch left over from a previous project.... ;-)
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yeah, I understand!!

Actually the 8051 is a nice instruction set. What about all that other
glue? Why not do all your outputs in software? I'm sure you can run the
2051 fast enough to keep up with any player, not enough outputs?

-Zonn
Received on Thu Jul 24 16:05:33 1997