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

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Mar 23 17:38:47 2002

I gave my '250 away about a decade ago. The tapes tended to die much sooner
than this.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Quebbeman" <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: SIMTEL (was Re: Source code for 805x line-by-line assembler?)


> > 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
>
>
>
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