From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Rick@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Host based micro sw dev environments Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2115 Posted: Sat Jul 17 07:00:17 1982 Received: Sun Jul 18 02:24:03 1982 Hi -- Large-scale software development environments like you would prefer to use certainly do exist, and, to my knowledge, they are in the public domain. While I was going to Grad School at the U of Illinois, Urbana, one of the other grad students had designed a "universal cross-assembler" which ran on our DEC-10 under TOPS-10. This program, written in PASCAL, would accept as input a "universal" assembly language source file and the name of a processor target file and assemble the source for the particu- lar target. We would then download from the 10 to the target and run (Intel Hex Format object). When I left, the program would assemble for the 8080, Z80, 6800, 6502, TI9900, and a host of other micros (I think 10-15 micros total). You may wish to contact the Dept of CS at U of Illinois for details. Rick