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From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:26:03 +0300
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14.6.2014 23:41, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2014-06-13, Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:03:28 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> PS: Luke/Brian: do you want to take this opportunity to report on the
>>> state of play and functionality of your work on your ports for ARM,
>>> PIC32MX and MSP430 ?
>>
>> There's not much to say about the MSP430 compiler. It's had a few hundred 
>> downloads and practically no feedback (good or bad!) from anybody using 
>> it. So I may be its only user for all that I know.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. I'll admit I've not yet used the MSP 430
> because when I build my own circuits I use PDIP packaged MCUs and the
> MSP 430 PDIP range been lacking when compared to other PDIP MCUs.

Olimex sells MSP430 header boards, which are basically just
DIP adapters (+crystal) for MSP430 MCUs. Of course, in some cases
real PDIP packaged MCU is better, but I find those boards
quite handy. (For now, I have played only with MSP430 assembler,
I haven't had time to test MSP430-Ada much.)

https://www.olimex.com/Products/MSP430/Header/

Yours,
 Tero