Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!+ From: eht@cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Motorola DSP56k software Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 89 20:34:29 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 12 As I understand it, the only Motorola software going to be bundled with future NeXT releases is the 56k assembler. It seems to me that given the potential of the Cube as a development system for 56k applications, it would be to Motorola's benefit to allow NeXT to bundle the linker, simulator and C compiler with the assembler. Also it seems that, given that academia is the target market for NeXT, the possibility that a public domain linker and simulator would be developed should not be discounted too heavily. Is there anyone from Motorola reading this bboard who can comment on this?