Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?

On 3/27/25 5:41 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
 

Cant program 8051 in C IIRC

 Both Keil and IAR have sold C compilers for it. I don't know if those
are still available.
 I do sometimes wonder what people use to develop for their 8051s
today. For example, I bought a little solder-it-yourself desktop clock
kit available for peanuts and it has some Chinese 8051 variant on it. No
software source unfortunately.

   I think the old stuff is still around and serves. Think
   you can also cross-compile from some Linux stuff, but
   not sure how well it accommodates the quirks of the '51.
   When the '51 was far more common, BASIC-ish compilers
   were more likely what you'd find. Think Systronix had
   both BASIC-ish and a Java-ish compiler.
   In any case, the '51 was - to a degree still is - a
   perfectly good microcontroller. Pref the 40-DIP pkg
   though because it's easy to solder the sockets :-)
   For today's uses, esp for newbies, the Pico is likely
   one of your best choices. Still have some PICs, but
   not sure I'll ever use them for anything again ...
   MAYbe for their original intent, peripherial interface,
   smarten-up I/O.