Re: controling an electric motor via cereal port.
"jjzcp" wrote:
> Is there any way i can get, say, an electric motor to be controled by a
> 486 via cereal port, and using C as the language? Also is there a site
> that has info that can help me on such a task?
How's this motor supposed to work? If it's some contraption which works on some time delay thingy - then yeah it should be able to.
I did a little experimentation with the combination of using C in conjuction with some hand made hardware which plugs into the ISA type connectors & than that did something with some other software. The C program was merely the driver to activate the hardware for the other program.
Unfortunately, I don't really know how the rest works - but I figure if I could do all that above using C, then C should be able to do what you need. Just don't try writing some Serial Port Cable access program in COBOL (theorically my teacher thought it was possible - but I simply couldn't grasp how COBOL would access the ports - or what I tried didn't work! )-:
C is also more powerful that Logo & boy you could do a bit with an Apple
][e & some Logo with the right hardware to play around with.
Cheers.