The further into the vortex of PICs/hardware/etc I get, the more I start to think "it would sure be nice to have a dedicated operating system to handle the recurring tasks like I/O, files, memory management, UI/displays, etc".
So I started wondering if the newer MIPS based PIC32 chips are worth the effort it would take to develop such an OS. ANy of you have any experience or thoughts on memory/CPU/other limitations of these?
It's still technically a uController...*BUT* there appears to be support for displays, USB, ethernet etc fairly well implemented (as well as the C library in general)...and although I am still plowing through the data "sheet", it appears that program and data memory can each be assigned to the other (?), which would be good news because my fear would be running out of program memory as the system got larger and larger....
Whatcha think? Would it be better to develop on a more "capable" CPU (any recommendations?)...don't want something as complex as x86 at this point....