27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
12:29 p.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
The FPGA/Xilinx swearing around here reminds me...
Many years ago (OK, decades, actually a good chunk of a
century now) the tools for doing embedded software development from
the manufacturers were:
1. Distributed as source code
2. Widely portable
3. Well-documented in terms of file formats
Examples are the Intel 8008 PL/M compiler they released in Fortran
and the original PALASM (Monolithic Memories?) in Fortran.
But then they changed Fortran compilers. $#!%
You can still get the source, just you can't compile on new machines easy.