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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: C Cross-Compiler for Intel 8051 wanted
Message-ID: <1991May6.020204.24258@bigsur.uucp>
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Date: Mon, 6 May 91 02:02:04 GMT


In article <1636@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> wcheung@ee.ubc.ca (CHEUNG WILLIAM KWOK) writes:
>Hi there,
>
>I am looking for a C Cross Compiler for Intel 8051.  Please specify the
>address, phone number, and fax number (if any) of the software developer(s),
>and reply to me directly at wcheung@ee.ubc.ca.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>


There was a review of some 8051 development tools in a recent mag
(Embedded Systems?). They reviewed a number of products but considered only
2 that cost less than $1000. One was $495 and the other was $40.00.
It turns out that the $40 product beat the $495 product in every
benchmark and had a better implementation of C as well.

The author of the $40.00 product is Dave Dunfield (613) 825-0257 (Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada). The product is called Micro C (and it is not a full ANSI
compliant compiler by any means, but then again, you can always by the >$1000
compilers for that).

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