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From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 8086 tools on VAX - (nf)
Message-ID: <4187@amd70.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Dec-83 02:52:48 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 25 02:52:48 1983
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>Information I have heard indicates that somewhere in the vicinity of 95% of
>all embedded microprocessor designers/implementors who use VAXs as development
>systems run VMS.  If this is true then engineers using BSD4.1/4.2 may find
>themselves at the bottom of every cross-development tool builder's priority
>list.

This may be true but I'm not going to use VMS without a fight. And is it true?
Anyone else care to comment on this?

>At any rate, why do you want to lock yourself in to Intel boxes?  There are
>many fine emulator systems on the market most of which work in conjunction
>with a VAX or similiar host system.

Show me a 286 emulator...
(although the title of the original article originally said 8086, I really
meant Intel family processors)
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Phil Ngai (408) 988-7777 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!phil