On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 03:33:28PM -0700, Dwayne Reid wrote:
> At 01:12 PM 12/13/2013, Byron Jeff wrote:
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> >projects. My current setup:
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> >1. Enhanced 16F chips (16F1825, 16F1847, 16F1938 in 14, 18, and 28=20
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> >2. Single pin Serial bootloader enabled using header pins for the=20
> >serial interface.
> >3. One offs one generic PCB boards.
> >4. Development in assembly or homegrown FORTH.
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> Hi there, Byron.
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> You've mentioned previously that you are working with FORTH.  How is=20
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> sharing it?
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> Many thanks!

It's stuck in neutral. The student I was working with graduated and I've
been too swamped to find anyone else to carry the flag or to make progress
on it myself.

The it got complicated because a few months ago I got sidetracked by the
PIC 24F16FV family of 5V parts. I got to the point where I could program
them with my PicKit 2, pk2cmd, and an updated PK2Device file using one of
the decoder/encoder systems that's posted in the Microchip forums. I want
to transfer my bootloader and FORTH to this family in the worst way as the
chips have all 16 W registers that are 16 bit and can all be used in
indirect mode. It would be an awesome FORTH platform to operate from.

The last I worked on that project, I had gotten stuck getting the hardware
UART working so that I could start doing some debugging.

I happen to know my worst personality trait when it comes to this kind of
stuff. I'm always interested in seeking out new ways of getting things
done. I find shiny objects attractive. However, the task of supporting such
infrastructure: not so much.

Releasing anything means maintaining a support forum. answering questions,
fixing problem. And because I'm a Linux guy who pretty much refuses to use
MPLAB/MPLABX a lot of the support questions will come from platorms that I
don't use regularly and would find difficult to support.

The bottom line is if anyone wants to have at my stuff in a barely beta
state and minimal support, I'll happily send you what I have. But in terms
of a wide release with anything close to real support? Not happening any
time soon.

BAJ


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