On Sat, 10 May 2003 22:05:17 GMT, "KP-PC"
<k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net%remove%> wrote:
>"r norman" <rsnorman_ at _comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:cqqpbvgsktmgosm9sad08spq7l868a7929 at 4ax.com...>| On 9 May 2003 20:05:58 -0700, peer-error at excite.com (External
>Network
>| Error) wrote:
>|>| >[...]
>| [...]
>|a system using Cobol and binary coded decimal
>| numbers should work as effectively as anything
>| else, provided the design is proper.
>| [...]
>>HURRAH!
>>It's True!
>>Cheers, Richard, ken [K. P. Collins]
>>[p. s. I could not post to sci.electronics.]
Thanks, Ken, for the kind words.
OK, so Cobol might be theoretically possible. I would guess, though,
that a small embedded system would be programmed in assembler to
control some specialized digital signal processor -- or maybe C or C++
depending on what CPU is available.
