jonb@vector.dallas.tx.us (Jon Buller) (06/10/90)
Hi, I've seen some of your postings about the pc532 system and some up-and-coming software for it. I was wondering how you did your initial work on it. Did you use your Mac as a host, or did you use some other computer, or did it just come up by itself with a compiler, tools, etc. 8-)? I am currently building a pc532, and would like to use my Mac to bring it up. I would rather have the cross-compilers and assembler on that than the PC clones here at work. Is this possible? (easy and simple may be better words to use...) Thanks in advance for any help or sugesstions you may be able to provide, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Buller jonb@vector.dallas.tx.us ..!texbell!vector!jonb FROM Fortune IMPORT Quote; FROM Lawyers IMPORT Disclaimer;
cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) (06/10/90)
In article <m0heBdl-0001E4C@vector.dallas.tx.us> jonb@vector.dallas.tx.us (Jon Buller) writes: >Did you use your Mac as a host, or did you use some other >computer, or did it just come up by itself with a compiler, tools, etc. 8-)? I assume this refers to my note, as the references line has my machine in it. At the moment, I don't have a working pc532. :-( That day is awaiting the parts buy. :-) Since gcc has been (apparently) been successfully ported to the MPW environment by a person at Apple, it would seem that a Mac could be used to bootstrap a pc532. However, since the bootstrap only need be done once, my idea was to cross compile all the necessary stuff at work on a Sun of some flavor and use my Mac as the intermediary to getting stuff to the pc532. However, I could always hook a SCSI disk to a Sun to write the disk image. Yeah, that's the way to go, and I won't even need to scrounge up that wierd connector either... Anyway, I guess the main point is that I'll not be using the Mac for any extended period as a cross development machine for the pc532. But I'll probably still get Minix for the Mac anyway. -- Craig Ruff NCAR cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307
jonb@vector.dallas.tx.us (Jon Buller) (06/10/90)
> Hi, I've seen some of your postings about the pc532 system and some
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OOPS, that was SUPPOSED to go to cruff@ncar.ucar.edu ONLY. Sorry for my
clumsy fingers when running elm...
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