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They missed the best geeky part: the most recent 12C (or 12C+ as it's known among the enthusiast crowd) is a hardware redesign, using a modern 32 bit ARM based
by joe_bleau 15y ago
They missed the best geeky part: the most recent 12C (or 12C+ as it's known among the enthusiast crowd) is a hardware redesign, using a modern 32 bit ARM based CPU (Atmel AT91SAM7L128), very similar to the 30B and 20B. But rather than risk introducing firmware errors with a code rewrite, the 12C+ emulates the original CPU and runs the original microcode. It's much faster, of course.
I think they've even released an SDK for it, if you're into reflashing with your own code...