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

[Bao C. Ha]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:20:04PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:

I think the MC68HC11 belongs to the 6800, not the 68K family.
I used to play with the Motorola Coldfire, part of the MC68K
but without FPU and MMU, when I was in Florida.  It was ways
cool loading uClinux and run it without memory protection.

Bao

> 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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