franco@iuvax.UUCP (04/09/87)
A professor at Indiana University is about to purchase approximately 20 1040 STs for a laboratory associated with a 68000 assembly language course. He needs a good assembler, debugger, text editor, unix shell, disassembler. He wants to be able to boot right into the shell so the students will never have to use the mouse. I showed him the MWC development system, the Atari development system and the old micro c shell. He said the Atari system with the micro c shell is adequate. However, he feels uneasy about making a decision on software until he knows all the possibilities. If anyone has information that will help him in making a software decision please send it to me at the address "franco@indiana.csnet". In particular, he would like to know more about existing assemblers, disassemblers and debuggers. Just a company name, phone number and address would do but feature info would be appreciated. Thank you. John Franco Indiana University
piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Richard Piner) (04/14/87)
I tried to reply via mail, but ....... In article <117900027@iuvax> you write: > >A professor at Indiana University is about to purchase approximately 20 >1040 STs for a laboratory associated with a 68000 assembly language course. >He needs a good assembler, debugger, text editor, unix shell, disassembler. >He wants to be able to boot right into the shell so the students will never >have to use the mouse. I showed him the MWC development system, the >Atari development system and the old micro c shell. He said the Atari system >with the micro c shell is adequate. However, he feels uneasy about making >a decision on software until he knows all the possibilities. If anyone has >information that will help him in making a software decision please send it >to me at the address "franco@indiana.csnet". In particular, he would like >to know more about existing assemblers, disassemblers and debuggers. Just >a company name, phone number and address would do but feature info would >be appreciated. Thank you. > >John Franco >Indiana University If you want a real software development system, you will need OS-9/68000. This operating system by-passes GEM/TOS completely. OS-9 is similar to UNIX, but many say it is better. It is a real time system, and UNIX is not. It also requires less memory and does not need an MMU. So for a machine like the Atari, it is as close to UNIX as you are likely to get. OS-9 is a fairly extensive system, so there is no point in me trying to go into any great detail in this short note. Let me just say, it is worth looking into. And towards that end, OS-9/68000 is written and sold by: Microware 1900 NW 114th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50322 512-224-1929 Give them a call and they will send you all the information you need. They will sell manuals, for those who like to look before they leap. I have found them to be quick and helpful when I called for information. They should be shipping version 2 in a few weeks. As an aside, I found a company in Ill. which says they will be selling OS-9 for $100 bucks. If you should decide to go with OS-9, I can send you their address. Good luck. Richard Piner piner@pur-phy.UUCP