Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00772
To: Steven Bolt sbolt@xs4all.nl
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:21:05 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM `claims' and misdemeanors, WAS: question
Cool! I wish that people'd use something like uP (microprocessor, I believe)
instead, because it REALLY confused me, and probably others as well, who are
getting towards the stage where they know there way around BEAM fairly well.
Ah, well, guess it doesn't matter.
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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>From: Steven Bolt
>To: George Rix
>Subject: Re: BEAM `claims' and misdemeanors, WAS: question
>Date: Fri, Feb 19, 1999, 10:15 AM
>
> `uC' Is generally accepted to stand for `micro-controller', which
> is a tiny, specialized kind of computer, usually on a single chip.
> So it's more than a cpu, because apart from processing hardware it
> also contains memory, i/o, and often assorted goodies like analog
> comparators, timers, counters, uarts, and so on.
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