In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, SteveW wrote:

> For example, let's see you write a pre-emptive real time operating system in 99 bytes!

Inmos' Transputer had a rather fine preemptive kernel and interprocess communication in the hardware (although scheduling tasks did take a small amount of code) (Sorry, it's just my favourite architecture of all time - I miss it. It was also, for the time, blazingly fast and had interrupt latencies of a couple of hundred nS, sort of SX-like...)

I also use SX devices for many products, and they do what the do exceedingly well. For me, they fill a vital gap between micros and FPGAs (but get used where lesser micros would also be appropriate, simply because of the tools, support and experience)
SX/B lets me (and my minion) knock out prototypes / test gear in no time - where other companies are dedicating a whole PC to a task, we've got $10 of silicon, taking almost no space, power or budget. Customers like that sort of thing!

However, I suspect coco is just an ineperienced troll...


Steve

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