[sdiy] Propeller chip from Parallax

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Eric Brombaugh wrote:

> That's not to say it isn't a great device, but the world has seen many great 
> devices (anyone remember the Inmos Transputer?) A lot of them still survive 
> in niches, but architectures that are too challenging often end up poorly 
> supported in the long run.

Question is, how is the propeller any better than say an ARM7? (which has 
free devtools, full featured C++ compiler, is fast and does have hw 
multiply).

Antti

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