Steve Stallings wrote: > The propeller works well for generating the steps. > It works less well at communicating with a host if > all comms would be consolidated in a single core > for communication with the host. There are no hardware > serializer/deserializer peripherals in the chip so > everything has to be bit banged. We did try this > and put it back on the shelf. > Yes, exactly. A very interesting and innovative project, I hope Parallax had a good customer in mind, as it seems to have some serious drawbacks to general use. If you wanted to mostly have the propeller be an autonomous controller for something, that might have been OK, but as a peripheral controller it was seriously flawed as you say. Anyway, I think it was pretty obsolete when introduced, it is now hopelessly obsolete. Anybody want to buy some Z-80s?
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