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First post, by Jo22

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Hi everyone!

My sources have informed me that a DOS-based IDE for the popular µC board is soon to be released,
due to popular demand from the vintage computing community.

According to my sources, initial support will be limited to the serial models, such as "Wiring Lite".
Future versions will be adding support for USB ISA cards and known USB to serial converters.

Mouse support already is included.

Amazing times lay ahead of us, when the beloved micro-controller board and the IBM PC finally team up!

Stay tuned!

Attached to this news are the first pictures, taken undercover.

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Reply 1 of 3, by BitWrangler

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Bear in mind that's about as efficient as a java interpreter implemented in Visual Basic, and that the little AVR chips are surprisingly grunty, low tens of MIPs, so this might be mid 486 upwards required for reasonable speed.

I don't know if it really really has a use case, apart from maybe streamlining the integration of arduino boards with DOS PCs, for any other simple stuff you're probably better sticking with QBasic or batch files (batch commands have been proven Turing complete)

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