Recently, an open source collaboration on the internet created a Flex emulator running under Linux and Windows. This enabled all the programs stored on the 350 floppy disks to be moved to network file servers and program development to continue using modern Windows based text editors. A nice consequence has been a reduction in compilation time from one and half hours on the old 8-bit MC6809 microprocessor to 56 seconds on a Pentium III emulating the 6809! The original “portable” Flex development machine was donated to the CERN computer museum.
Final upgrades
We are starting development of a completely new embedded controls solution for the PS complex to enable the renovation of the converter controls. This will start in 2008 with the replacement of the oldest pre-G-64 systems, but over a period of years, all the G-64 systems will be eventually be eliminated. However, many new converters have been installed in 2004-5 and more will be added in 2006-7. These systems need controls and the only solution available at the moment is the G-64 chassis
More than 100 new systems have been needed
which has required a new CPU card because of the obsolescence of the MC6809. The new card is based on a relatively new 16-bit Mitsubishi microcontroller running at 3.3V. All the development tools run under Windows and the C language is used instead of Pascal. The new software uses MicroC/OS-II from Jean Labrosse [3]. At the same time as the numerous Pascal programs were being consolidated, a new version written in C was developed for the new card. One more new card may be developed for the new G-64 crates, to support analogue and digital I/O. This is regrettable for a system at the end of its life, but there is no way to escape the treadmill of obsolescence.
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