24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
6:33 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:49:21PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Maybe not so odd when you consider what development
tools used to cost for
some of the more uncommon processor chips compared with what was out there
for the 8088...
I have some of the hardware development tools that Software Results used
for making COMBOARDs - on the order of $10K and $20K new. We were able
to cheap-out on the software by writing our own 68K assembler for the VAX,
or that would have been several thousand more $$$ (this is in the same
timeframe as the 5150, BTW, 1981-1983 or so).
-ethan
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