[ale] OT: any KSU MSACS's out there?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 22:36, John Wells wrote:

> We also received our digital lab equipment, which looks like it should
> be fun.  It's an IDL-8000 Digital Lab Circuit Evaluator (breadboard)
> with an MC68HC11 microcontroller.  I haven't seen any other programs
> that offer this sort of low level stuff around here, so I'm pretty
> stoked.  

Most of the other schools around here have some sort of digital
electronics class for the CS majors. I would expect that getting it in
the graduate arena will make it MUCH more in depth than as an undergrad
course. From what I have seen, most of the intro (and more advanced, as
well) use some variant of the 68000 chip. Apparently, the 68k is an easy
to learn on system and is cheap enough that student abuse ruggedness can
be built in for not much extra cash.

Have fun! Tinkering with low level stuff is a very good way to learn why
other languages higher than assembly are such a good thing :)

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