On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:01:53 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>  Propellers are interesting chips... 8 simple cores running in
lockstep;
> each core has some internal RAM for programs (so it can be different
> code in each core) written in assembler. The default mode is that the
> core is loaded with a byte-code interpreter, and SPIN programs are read
> from external memory. The P1 allowed one core at a time to access
> external memory (in sequence); the new P2 apparently allows all 8 cores
> to do memory I/O on each cycle.

They sound interesting. I heard of them soon after they were released,
but you've just increased my knowledge about them by about 500%.

Out of pure curiosity: have you any idea how much work it would be to
convert a fully debugged BS2 BASIC program into a running SPIN program?


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