[time-nuts] An embedded NTP server

[Tom Harris]

+1 for Forth!

+1 for your opinions on PICs & AVRs. We can buy low end NXP ARM Cortex M0
chips (e.g. LPC1113) for less than the PIC18 we were using before, and it
has a real compiler and (unlike the real world) evidence of intelligent
design!

Do you really need an OS? Surely for a box that is only ever going to be an
NTP server you just need a network interface and good maths? I've just seen
a later comment where you mention floating point support, but would 64 bit
integer maths work just as well?

On 3 January 2013 06:25, Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
>
> > I've given up on PIC and Atmel microcontrollers and their antiquated
> > CPU designs.
> >
> > My life is too short to fight odd-ball compilers, when I can get a
> > real 32 bit CPU and a good compiler instead.
>
> That is a valid point if you are building a one-off project.  Your
> time is worth something.  But if you plan to sell a million AA cell
> battery chargers using a 32-bit controller is uneconomical.   These
> will always be a bigger market for 8-bit chips then for 32-bit chips.
>
> For an NTP server I'd go with something that can run an OS and the NTP
> reverence implementation.  ARM (and others) can do that.
>
> --
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
>
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Tom Harris <celephicus at gmail.com>