Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax.UUCP!hutch From: hutch@sdcsvax.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: (sun w/ iAEC-80n86 card) Message-ID: <8710191851.AA11110@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 14:51:06 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.8710191851.AA11110 Posted: Mon Oct 19 14:51:06 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 02:39:23 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 27 Cross developement. Yes, money. Sure, ibm pc products do carry a certain, distaste to certain members of the programming community, I among them, but they are lucrative. Not every tom-lisa-and-randolph can afford a sun workstation, nor do they necessarily need to. Small computers for small everday tasks that you would like to do a little faster and a little more reliably (hopefully :-). Given this, there is a need for these devices. Given that small point, there is also that developement notion. Do *I* want to work on one of those pathetic/beastial/explitive devices? Nay. So I put up the bucks and buy a XXX with a YYY card/emulator in it. Somewhere along the QC cycle it would be nice if you tested it on the target device, but you don't have to do developement on it. On small devices, you can get boards/emulators, on larger devices you can get emulators. Cray emulator on a SUN? Could save on expensive Cray time? I am aware of a VAX Cray emulator, but no word on popularity. The pc emulator on the Amiga is nice, supports everything Peter Norton supports (yes, a set restricted to good grace). Cross developement is no new concept, this new setup might be nice for people who are migrating systems to new hardwares. "Oh, yes, and can you send me the Mac III emulator so I can start migrating *acsyma?". Could be a new era for software developement. - Jim Hutchison UUCP: {dcdwest,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!hutch ARPA: Hutch@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu Disclaimer: Just a raving, but gainfully employed, undergrad.