[CCTECH] any ISIS info out there?

Hi Derek, I used ISIS-II extensively in its heyday. Today I have a few Intel MDS (Microcomputer Development Systems) that run ISIS-II along with the ICE80 (In-Circuit Emulator...quite a bit more powerful than a simulator), UPM, PL/M-80, and all the other development software/hardware that Intel made for the platform. ISIS-II is similar in concept to CP/M but quite a bit different in structure. BTW, I'm not sure why you say that diskette formatting was more complicated. ISIS-II used a different file structure than CP/M, but it wasn't all that much more complicated, as I recall. The formats for files was more structured with object module files having identifiers embedded in them rather than just being a stream of binary that was assumed to be loaded at 100H and contiguous from there. You see, Intel made the MDS's capable of developing code that could run under ISIS-II, but its main purpose in life was to develop code that could run on any hardware platform as long as it used an Intel processor. Therefore it was much more flexible in that respect. There is a huge stack of documentation that was published by Intel on the MDS's and all their programming tools. If you have some specific questions, maybe I can help. Also, you have a wealth of other sources here in Tony Duell and Joe Rigdon, and others I'm sure. Fire away!!! Dave Derek Peschel wrote: -- Dave Mabry dmabry(a)mich.com Dossin Museum Underwater Research Team NACD #2093