jgray@helens.UUCP (Jerrold Gray) (04/15/85)
<......> Some of the users here at Data~I/O are a little frustrated at the performance and support they have been getting from Boston Office System's 6802 and 6809 cross assemblers. I believe that alternatives have been, and are being, persued by other, and possibly more responsible, people. I am, however, curious as to what other people on the net are using for cross assembler tools. Specifically,.... I am interesting in finding a cross assembler that was written for a VAX/UNIX system and not merely ported by way of "compat" programs. It is my understanding that "compat" forces the system to emulate a PDP11 to run those programs that were compiled for PDP11s. This can hardly be very efficient and I can't help but wonder if tools written to take advantage the the VAX's memory managment would run faster. I would also suspect that if I found a tools specifically written for a VAX environment (and actually developed on VAX machines), that the support that we would get from the vendor would be better than we are experiencing now. Perhaps one doesn't follow the other but it is worth speculating about. Does anyone out there know of such tools? I realise that there may be one or more public domain source code versions of 6802 and 6809 tools, or tools we could puchase as source and modify to our needs. What I am looking for are a set of tools we don't have to modify, but merely install (which implies we don't necessary care about access to source), and a company that can quickly respond when we have problems with the product. Please reply by electronic mail. If there is enough interest I will summarize to the net. Thanks in advance. Jerrold L. Gray uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!helens!jgray