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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 21:27:08 +0200
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:29:15 -0700 (PDT), Patrick wrote:

> Yes but my main point was the lack of GPIO, please comment on this

>From my point of view it looks just useless. We are using modular I/O
systems EtherCAT-, XCP-, ModBus-, CAN-/CANOpen-based.

It does not make sense to me to have an integrated I/O or some stackable
I/O board (PC104). Too expensive, non-extensible, unmaintainable, unsafe,
never meets any requirements etc.

BTW, for low-cost digital I/O you could take parallel port or some pins of
RS232, if the board has them.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de