ISIS-II - what to do with it?

From: Jeff Kaneko <Jeff.Kaneko_at_ifrsys.com>
Date: Tue Jan 13 17:02:58 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
                                      ^^^^^
Ahem, SwTPc's were all, solidly, Motorola Based (6800,6809).
Exorcisor and Exormacs forever!

Jeff


> are based on Intel CPUs or will run Intel code like the Z-80 does.
>
> Joe
>
>
Received on Tue Jan 13 1998 - 17:02:58 GMT