Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!spdcc!kaos!romkey
From: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hardware Debuggers
Message-ID: <366@kaos.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 87 06:15:44 GMT
References: <2160@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
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Organization: Chaos; Somerville, MA
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Keywords: harware debugger Atron

In article <2160@crash.cts.com> paul@crash.CTS.COM (Paul Palacios) writes:
>I'm looking for any comments regarding hardware debuggers for the IBMPC
>family of computers (AT,XT,clones,etc.).  So far I've heard some things
>about the ATRON debugger and some on the PERISCOPE.

I've used the ATRON debugger a fair amount and found that it works fairly
well. Some of the user interface is a bit clunky...you have to type a '.'
(period) at the start of each symbol name. I've never used their source
option. But it helped me debug some TSR programs that I probably never
would have been able to debug any other way.

I think they only claim it to work with certain systems, for instance
real IBM computers, and Compaq's. It *doesn't* work in the Everex AT clone,
which my company has very many of, so we have to use it in our one true
IBM PC/AT.
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