Hello Brian, thanks for your message!
> ... to the arm based systems where the 'real' work can be > done. Well observed imho. I read a book on PIC microcontrollers many years back, where the authors made a case that if need be, counted loops (in asm, no matter which way through the if statements the code executes, it will always take exactly the same time) are your tool to make the 8 bitter - sing a song - dim a 50/60 Hz lamp - do one more job i forgot by now - all at the same time and organize these three jobs well. Eye opening and jaw droping at the same time. It has made a lasting impression on me. > So I ask that you don't eliminate the ability > to build from source, even if it means using wine and the atmel > (micochip) assembeler. Rest assured. First of all *I* want to build from source any time, because I still play with stuff written in assembly. And I don't want this project to die, just because I happen to use it myself! Who would have thought :-) And most importantly: this is GPL software. The source ist the fundamental representation of the whole project. It always must be possible to build from source. I'm just a whee bit uneasy that this fine project depends on non-free components for this very step. And I had good discussions with Matthias about this. There is just no /easy/ way out, I'm afraid. But: lurking folks on the list resorted to writing emails! Even sending patches! Definitely progress around here. Thank you! Cheers, Erich -- May the Forth be with you ... _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
