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