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From: [e-mail] (Fred G Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Macintosh/Unix versions of Motorola's AS11 6811 assembler
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Date: 22 Dec 92 05:23:59 GMT
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Greetings Macintosh and Unix-based 6811 programmers,

I've installed ports of the Motorola "as11" 6811 assembler program
onto the MIT Media Lab server machine.  This code is Motorola
freeware---yay, no sending money or waiting for disks!

The Mac port is in pub/miniboard/mac/as11.sit.hqx.  There is a
double-clickable application and Think C 4.0 source code.  A Mac
downloader for the resulting .s19 records is named dlm.sit.hqx in that
directory.

The Unix port is in pub/miniboard/unix/as11.tar.Z.  There is no
executable but it should compile easily; I've cleaned up a few
problems with the original PC-oriented sources.  There is a version of
the downloader program with changes to work with Unix serial lines
that were made by Ted Dunning.


So, 6811 assembly hackers can program away with freeware based systems
now.  I hope to port the Mini Board C libraries for use as assembly
language subroutine libraries; this would make programming in assembly
almost fun!

Now, if the freeware 6811 Small-C system weren't so durned MS-DOS
specific...has anyone ever had any luck porting that thing?


Holiday cheers,

Fred