[Oberon] RISC / PC File transfers

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> From: greim [mailto:greim at schleibinger.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2014 8:06 PM
> To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Oberon] Large Displays / 64 bit...
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> Also a tool writing the Oberon File system directly to a SD-
> Card and a real PC-Link using the RS232 RISC<->PC would be nice to have,
> as a stable, easy to use infrastructure.
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How can you possibly make progress if you're imprisoned, and can't get
files in & out of 'the system'?
But can you still buy a PC with RS232 today?
I loved the V5's <2 wire i2c similar> idea; and would have used it on rPi.
It would be easiest to interface with a par-port; which are perhaps even rarer.
The need to use eth0 from PC <-> rPi over 1 meter, is as absurd as using
the national railway system to fetch coffee from the kitchen.

But the market has convinced the new-boys that it's needed.
Could ETHO's existing V24 [RS232] code be easily ported to V5.
The way early 90's code has been ported to ALO shows the viability;
although I can't know how difficult that was.

It may be easier to use hi-tech to down-grade the PC to talk V5-2wire,
than to teach V5 to talk RS232, like I used ETHO's <powerfull
keybrd-Macro> to duplicate the "*" key.

== Chris Glur.





On 6/19/14, Chris Burrows <chris at cfbsoftware.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: greim [mailto:greim at schleibinger.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2014 8:06 PM
>> To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [Oberon] Large Displays / 64 bit...
>>
>> Also a tool writing the Oberon File system directly to a SD-
>> Card and a real PC-Link using the RS232 RISC<->PC would be nice to have,
> as a
>> stable, easy to use infrastructure.
>>
>
> I use slightly modified versions of ORC.Mod and PCLink1.Mod which are both
> included with Project Oberon to send files from the PC to the Spartan-3
> FPGA
> board. I have ORC running on 'ETH PlugIn Oberon for Windows 2.5' on the PC
> and PCLink1 running on RISC Oberon.
>
> I have also started working on a Gardens Point Component Pascal Windows
> program to read / write to the Oberon filesystem on an SD card. So far it
> is
> just reading raw sectors. It has had to wait as preparation of the release
> of Astrobe for Cortex-M4 with hardware floating point support has been
> keeping me busy. However, I hope to be able to return to the SD card
> project
> soon,
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
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> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.astrobe.com
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