On 9 Feb 2010 at 12:09, Ben wrote:
no... for a small machine Z80/6809 ect. Hmm time to
change the subject
line. How did that work back then to get software created for a new
machine? 8080's had PLM compiled on a VAX or something along the same
lines. Ben.
Cross-compilation/assembly. My first assemblers for the 8008 and
8080 ran on a mainframe and were coded in--wait for it--FORTRAN.
Before that, well, have you ever coded in machine code? IBM even
used to have coding forms for a few machines that were used to
facilitate that.
--Chuck