SIMTEL (was Re: Source code for 805x line-by-line assembler?)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sat Mar 23 13:30:40 2002

> I'm hoping to come up with an alternative to this, naturally, but I have to
> start somewhere, and that will require a line-by-line assembler, so one can
> use the mnemonics instead of having to learn the HEX codes for each
> instruction.
>
> Hopefully there's one already been done out there somewhere ...

Brain rot kept me from remembering how I handled this... I
didn't... well, I have a hardware debugger called DryIce-51
or something like that. You pull your 8051, plug this in,
it has its own 8051, and IIRC it has an assembler built-in.

Handy for debugging interrupt routines, althought it's not
a true ICE, so you can't trace through machine states.

Then again, more brain rot... I had *some* kind of monitor,
because for the DS5000, I found it handier to use it than
to pull the chip and stick in the DryIce.

Found the SIMTEL 8051 stuff, at least what I downloaded.
Wasn't much. But I have a WIC-80 tape labeled to indicate
some more 8051 stuff is on it. The 486 with the Jumbo-250
seems to be dying...

-dq
Received on Sat Mar 23 2002 - 13:30:40 GMT