[Gasification] Re: Lego /Instrumentation, Control and Operation

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:14:53 -0700, Jigme wrote in message 
<4474E8ED.3040305 at turboisp.com>:

> I agree with Mark but would add 2 cents.
> Trying to write Assembler without a good grasp of C and/or some other
> higher language[s] is like trying to fly a fighter jet without knowing
> what an airplane is.

..aye, plus it's an _useless_ re-invention of wheels, _unless_ it is
done to _educate_ someone.
 
> When Jim Henson's shop first teamed up with LEGO they used a nice
> little language called LOGO. They went to VB because of the MS
> dominated market not the need for a higher language.
> Go with Basic or Basic under DOS if you want to use old PC's. 

..there is also http://freedos.org/ and http://elks.sourceforge.net/ for
those 8086 and 80286 masochists, otherwise you want GNU/Linux for 
80386 and all non-Intel cpu's, see http://www.debian.org/ports/

> I/O boards will be easier too.

..aye, except for the choosing...
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/electronics/
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science/
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/comm/
some quite fancy too
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/embedded/
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/ 
in http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ and ditto in
http://packages.debian.org/stable/ and 
http://packages.debian.org/testing/

> Simple is better.

..aye, loose all the fancy fat and reel it in online:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst or
http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
and by all means keep it simple, the hard part in keep yourself
from get carried away chking out all sortsa cool stuff that you 
really, really, really don't need.  ;o)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.