4 Jul
2012
4 Jul
'12
3:05 p.m.
On 4 Jul 2012 at 11:44, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Does anyone recall anything about the availability of
(cross-)
assemblers for 1802 development back in their day?
Not that I need to find an original, I'm disassembling and 'reverse-
sourcing' the firmware (~700 bytes) for some equipment from 1977 with
an embedded 1802, and just idly assessing what the likelihood is that
it was produced with a machine assembler vs. hand-assembled.
Almost all manufacturers of the early micros offered cross-assemblers
(usually FORTRAN) for their products. I'd be surprised if the
CDP1802 wasn't among that crowd, given its simplicity.
--Chuck