Microcontrollers

[Dan Erickson <coldoneknight@rogers.com>]

	A while back I was expressing interest in writting a watchdog 
driver. What really slowed me down was trying to find an actual watchdog 
that doesnt already have drivers written for it. I did find a 
microcontroller with a watchdog onboard.

	Basicly... I need a little information.
http://www.national.com/parametric/0,1850,3474,00.html

That is the link to the microcontroller. What I was wondering is, 
what is a microcontroller? what are they used for? can linux even be used 
on this thing? and who has one of them?

Thanks alot

-Dan Erickson-
-ColdOneKnight@rogers.com-

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