>> Another option is to have the code inside the PIC as an interpreter,
>> and put the tokens that get interpreted in external EEPROM
>
> I believe that's how the PIC-AXE works, using internal EEPROM,
> so programs are/were quite short

I had not thought of the internal interpreter, external program idea, but
that's a good idea for large programs. If each instruction read in from
outside resulted in a lot of internal code being run, it could be pretty
fast too. So... what to interpret? Tokenized Basic? Pascal p-code? Java?
...

Harold


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