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- From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
- Newsgroups: comp.realtime,comp.os.misc
- Subject: Re: Real-time OS for PC's
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:24:05 GMT
- Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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- In article <92356.214536CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Christopher Vickery <CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- >I'm curious about the two people who have had problems with Intel
- >development tools. I've been teaching courses using iRMX at
- >Queens College since 1984. The only change/inconsistency that I
- >to the present one, an ANSI C compiler that, I was told by someone
- >at Intel, was based on their own PLM compiler. There have been
-
- I used Intel's development tools, including RMX (after it came out) from
- somewhere around '79 to about '88. We never bothered to get the C compiler as
- we had quit using Intel for new systems around '85 and were just supporting
- existing ones after that.
-
- As to tools, ISIS II, the PLM and Fortran compilers we used were the most
- stable tools in the lot (luckily). The debuggers, ROM burners, ICE and RMX
- for the different platforms, etc. were the tools that were incredibly
- frustrating as versions for different processors hardly looked like they came
- from the same company. And then there was the time I had to make mods in a
- 96k ROM product after we had updated the OS. The new romburner software
- couldn't burn the ROMs anymore since it couldn't handle offsets higher than
- 64k and I couldn't run the old rom burner software on the new OS and we had
- to keep to new OS for a new product we were working on. I ended up reading
- the old roms into memory and hand-patching the blasted changes in hex. Took
- me about three days once I figured out what the problem was. That was the
- straw that broke my back.
-
- We moved over to HPUX and their Motorola cross development system after that
- and never regretted it one bit. I pretty much chunked the Intel systems we
- had except for an ancient 8080, floppy-based system that I hooked to our HPUX
- system. We would do all development on unix and download to the DS to compile
- and burn roms for the Intel imbedded control products that we were still
- supporting.
-
- iRMX, etc. may have gotten a little better after we quit using it, and in
- 1979, Intel had one heck of a system, but Things Move On and I'm just glad I
- did.
-
- Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute
- Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
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