1st stage loader for IMSAI - need ascii to binary conversion

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:14, woodelf wrote:
> Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> >   Well, Chuck said it best, but I'll add this: You get fewer
> > components, lower cost, easier maintainability and tweakability,
> > increased flexibility, the possibility for a reusable design...how
> > is this a bad thing?
>
> I question the over head ... with all the design software closed
> source I bet Mr Gates has control of I guess 75% of your hardware
> product.

All of the "good" microcontrollers don't require any sort of Windows 
software.  Some may require closed-source compilers, etc, but you can 
find open-source compilers for MCS51, PIC, and other uC architectures.

Pat
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