+1 for Forth! +1 for your opinions on PICs & AVRs. We can buy low end NXP ARM Cortex M0 chips (e.g. LPC1113) for less than the PIC18 we were using before, and it has a real compiler and (unlike the real world) evidence of intelligent design!
Do you really need an OS? Surely for a box that is only ever going to be an NTP server you just need a network interface and good maths? I've just seen a later comment where you mention floating point support, but would 64 bit integer maths work just as well? On 3 January 2013 06:25, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> > wrote: > > > I've given up on PIC and Atmel microcontrollers and their antiquated > > CPU designs. > > > > My life is too short to fight odd-ball compilers, when I can get a > > real 32 bit CPU and a good compiler instead. > > That is a valid point if you are building a one-off project. Your > time is worth something. But if you plan to sell a million AA cell > battery chargers using a 32-bit controller is uneconomical. These > will always be a bigger market for 8-bit chips then for 32-bit chips. > > For an NTP server I'd go with something that can run an OS and the NTP > reverence implementation. ARM (and others) can do that. > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Tom Harris <celephi...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.