ISIS-II - what to do with it?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Jan 13 17:19:02 1998

At 03:49 PM 1/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I got a line on an Intel ISIS-II development system with lots of
>accessories. What do I do with it if I get it?
>
>Rich Cini/WUGNET
> Charter ClubWin! Member
> MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
>

   Nothing unless you get some hardware with it, the ISIS is just the
operating system for the Intel MCS 80/85 developement system. It supports
all of the Intellec devices. What you can do depends on what hardware and
software you get. But a few of the things that it does are: Burn EPROMS,
supports Assembly langauge programming (for LOTs of CPUs), Fortran, Pl/M,
BASIC, COBOL, hardware developemnt including In-Circuit-Emulators (ICE) for
most or all of the Intel CPUs (maybe others too, I'm not sure). Don't
discount these systems, they may be old be they're very powerful and are
still in use today. They can develope, simulate, test and burn in programs
for things like the 8049 and 8051 dedicated uProcessors along with all the
standard Intel CPUs like the 8080, 8085, 8086, 80186, 80286 etc. I don't
know if these supportted the 80386 or 80486 or the newer CPUs however.
This would be a great machine for those guys (and gals, Allison) that still
like to tinker with the Altairs and SWTPC and the other old machines that
are based on Intel CPUs or will run Intel code like the Z-80 does.
  
  Joe
Received on Tue Jan 13 1998 - 17:19:02 GMT