Monitor for iSBC 8024

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Oct 28 19:53:12 2000

I have the original manual, and it has no hint of a monitor, aside from one
they sold as a separate product. I'm planning to use the monitor to test
the various boards I have.

According to the Intel doc's, the 8010,8020, and 8024 boards all used the
same hardware addresses, as did the monitors they sold for them. That will
serve me well, as I intend to use a script running on a terminal emulator on
the PC in order to verify proper operation of the various features on the
board.


I bought the Intel monitor for the 8020 and 8020-4, which has an 8080A,
while the 8024 has an 8085. It was not a very nice piece of work, so I'm
hopeful I can find something a bit more up to date. The Intel monitor was
delivered to the customer who paid for it back in the '70's, and I haven't
seen one since. I'm just not interested in writing a monitor just for the
at most ten boards I'll have to check out. In the last 10 years, I've not
encountered even one person who's used these boards. They were VERY popular
in the late '70's.

Does anybody know the Hi-Tech 'C' compiler for CP/M well enough to know
whether it produces 8080 code?
I was under the impression that it generates Z80 code but recently was told
it has a switch to produce 8080 mnemonics as well. Now I've got at least
half-a-dozen 'C' compilers for CP/M, any one of which should produce 8080
code, but AFAIK the Hi-tech (Pacific) compiler is the only one that also has
a version for several other CPU's as well, so it would be worth using just
for the exercise. I could justify writing an original monitor in a 'C'
dialect portable to several MCU's, but not just one. I might as well do
that in assembler.

Aztec, BDS, Whitesmith, among others, are all history. <sigh> Maybe the
"small-C" (Hendrix) could be used, since I can write my own code generator.
I'd rather skip that step though.

Dick






----- Original Message -----
From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Monitor for iSBC 8024


> From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
>
> I've not yet found a board-resident monitor for the Intel iSBC 8024
> board. I've got a number of these on hand and have used sadly inadequate
> resources that worked (barely) for what I've been doing with them, but
> would like to make it worthwhile writing a set of test scripts for my
> notebook funcitoning as a terminal attached to the iSBC 8024.
>
>
> Find the manual for that. The code they used it in it. Also they used
> the same monitor
> in a lot of products with mostly address changes.
>
> Allison
>
>
>
Received on Sat Oct 28 2000 - 19:53:12 BST

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