From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm
Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm
Title: Host based micro sw dev environments
Article-I.D.: ucb.1534
Posted: Fri Jul 16 22:50:48 1982
Received: Sat Jul 17 05:46:53 1982

>From Autrey-Hunley@Sri-Kl Fri Jul 16 22:50:38 1982
I am looking for software development tools for micros such as the
8086, 68000, and PDP-11/23.  The tools should run on a mini or
mainframe such as Prime, VAX, IBM, or DEC-20.

The language of choice is C; so the critical item for the development
environment is a cross compiler for C targeted for the above micros.
Other nice elements would be emulators, debuggers, and the such that
run on the development host machines as well as on the micros them
selves.

The target operating systems are DEC's POS (nee RSX-11) for the
Professional 325 and 350, MS-DOS for the IBM PC and etc., CPM-86, MPM,
and Unix on the 68000.

Such an integrated software development environment probably isn't
presently available.  But surely some of the major pieces are here
now.  (I hope.)

By the way, what are the 'big boys' doing for large scale software
development?  Surely places like Microsoft and Digital Research are
not using the crummy programming environments currently available on
the popular micros to produce major new systems, particularly when the
systems are targeted for more than one family of micro CPU and OS
combination.

Gene Autrey-Hunley
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