Digest Number 267
1 message · 2005-05-05 → 2005-05-05 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: Scott A. Rossell
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1. RE: [ts2068] Digest Number 267
Scott A. Rossell · Thu, 5 May 2005 08:50:
As a writer by profession, I tend to be a bit long winded in my messages.
I'm usually writing painfully detailed technical specifications, manuals,
and the occasional ghost project. My grandmother loves it since she still
prefers to communicate by post. But oftentimes I find people in this
modern, microwave, instant gratification society we live in prefer to get
the facts in micro bites. So let's try that...
Mr. D. appears to have a firm grasp of legacy system capabilities.
MS-DOS is a great tool that I still find useful in the field today.
Programmers should behave as if they only had 16K of memory.
Zilog died because IBM chose Intel and the world followed Microsoft with
cheap PCs in tow.
Netgear router sucks. Replacement Linksys sucked worse. Back on Netgear
for now.
The eZ80 trainer/programmer had a US$1,000 pricetag on it, so Ive been
reluctant to give it away. Have considered eBay. Would prefer a trade of
some kind. (eBays greed bugs me.)
The eZ80 Evaluation Board and Developers Kit is a complete web server on a
board about 5 ½ inches square (the actualt production model is much
smaller). It has never been used and includes the evaluation board, ZPAK
emulator, ethernet cable, power supplies, TCP/IP stack software, drivers,
flash code, C compiler, ZDS IDE, and tons of documentation. All in a box
10x13x4 inches.
I acquired this Kit in June of 2002. Last I knew, the production model was
a 50Mhz processor on a board about 2 or 3 inches square with the buss
accessible on two parallel pin strips selling for about US$200 each.
0 OK, O:1