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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: 68k system monitor needed
Message-ID: <2116@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 17:47:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 17:47:29 1987
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: eprom monitor source code

>>     I am looking for a simple system monitor program to use on a homebrew
>>68k system.  All it has to do is talk to a terminal...
>>[etc, etc, etc]
>>     I am also looking for a 68k cross assembler that will run on
>>an Apple ][, which has my EPROM burner in it.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, include a cross assembler for
>an Apple ][ (I also have C compilers available on several machines if
>it's not specifically for the Apple.)
>
Uh, have you guys considered getting a FORTH for your machines? It
will fill the requirements, and be a lot quicker to get running
than something in assembler. There are several places to start; the
Laxen and Perry F83 is available but runs under (over?) an operating
system (MS-DOS or CPMxxx). It contains an assembler for the
processor it runs on (68000, 8086, or 8080), too.

To get a FORTH running on a new system (using the same processor, of
course) one typically only needs to generate the console code -
keyboard input and screen output. I've done some in which all I had
to do was change the address where the serial port lived.

Anyway, just a suggestion. 

keith