On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > Based on what I find in format83.c, this shouldn't be too much > > trouble, but I really want to know what "Intel HEX 83" is supposed to > > mean. > > The easily findable specification document for "intel hex", which has > intel branding and copyright, is revision A and dated 1988, so perhaps > "83" is a reference to the original version's year of publication. > The format is much older than that, and although it's possible that there may have been a 1983 edition of that document, it seems more likely that the author of the software in question chose 83 because that was the format number that Data I/O assigned for use with their device programmers. Data I/O refers to it as "Intel Intellec 8/MDS". Here's a list of Data I/O formats recognized by the UniSite/2900/3900 family programmers: http://ftp.dataio.com/main/Manuals/UniFam/Translation%20Formats.pdf