Very easily it could provide the console output on TV or VGA. My first thought was to use a Propeller to implement those peripherals. This of course needs some peripherals like serial ports and disk drives which I really don't want to build the old way. Now, I have a "retro computing" hobby project going on which is to build up a little sytem with an old Intel 8085 processor some RAM and some ROM and get running the CP/M operating system. Something that uses all it's power to the max. Something that it can do with ease that other controllers cannot. So I have yet to envisage the ultimate killer application for it. It's also has severe limitations in the lack of general purpose memory and the tiny spaces available for PASM in each cog. The Propeller is totally facinating in that the thinking that went into it's architecture is so far "out of the box":The multiple processors, the spin interpreter, the lack of interrupts, the required use of (normally frowned upon) self modifying code in PASM, the deterministic timing etc. Having been involved in embedded systems since 1982 and hence been through many generations of microprocessors, microconrollers and associated operating systems I could not resist looking into this new fangled Propeller chip. I have just registered with this forum having been lurking for some months.
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