18 Oct
2008
18 Oct
'08
6:26 a.m.
Jeff Erwin said the following on 10/17/2008 1:17 PM:
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Love the old update letters. I was working for Intel in Oregon back then on
the 380 and 310 RMX development systems. We never saw anything that went
out to actual customers. The compiler cost $250? Wow.
Seemed like a lot at the time! I think the $295 price was for a one
year extension of the warranty on PL/M-80 and it covered updates. The
compiler itself was $2000 if I remember. Intel's tools were very
expensive. But they were intended for companies that were making
products to sell. You know how businesses charge other businesses lots
of money.
I appreciate the scanning of the docs. If you email
me the actual docs I
will get them up on the various archive sites as well. There could be other
dinosaurs out there looking for it.
I will start scanning the PL/M-80 syntax manual next week. It is the
largest of the manuals. After that I'll work on the compiler operator's
manuals.
I am able to compile and run PLM80 apps on my Imsai
8080 now, I am rewriting
all of my floppy drive control stuff from asm80 to plm80 as we speak. I
have forgotten how much easier PLM was from asm80!
PL/M was my favorite language. In those days I was designing and
programming control and data acquisition systems for automotive R&D.
How do you have Intel compilers and assemblers running on the Imsai?
You must have ISIS-II running on it. How much work was that to do?
Dave