> Byron you should persevere. Knowledge and experience are good goals in their own
> right. Also here's another: PICs are cheap, you can easiliy pack several on a
> small board for very little cost, if you have a compiler that can generate code
> that can be executed from an EXTERNAL source you have the potential to build a
> system that can pass sections of code between processors. A big program with a
> pool of processors executing different parts, possibly modifying sections and
> passing them on for further processing, that's a very interesting project.
> 
> Regards
> Sergio Masci

Ahhh. This is the basic idea of my MAPS project: Multiple Array of PIC'S.

The idea is that an array of very inexpensive microcontrollers should
be able to out perform a normal computer at some tasks.
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