> On Aug 31, 2016, at 12:05 AM, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote: > > I'm using a Mac now to develop Atmel AVR 8 bit MCU 'c' code. This is on a > MacMini (OS 10.6.8). Previously I did MC68HC11 assembly code. I don't > recall how far back, Mac wise, I went but it was at the latest a G4. > > There are assemblers for a number of CPUs available that run under OSX. > > I like the Atmel as I can write in 'c' which is just a lot easier than > assembly. > > I have recently found an 8080 assembler I can use. This will come in handy > as I'm building an 8080 emulator (using an Atmel MCU). I am recreating the > first computer I built, 35 years ago. The MCU I'm using has 128 KBytes of > flash and 32 KBytes of Ram, quite a bit more than the 1K EEPROM AND 4K of > RAM. The RAM card was made from 32 1Kbit chips and I wired all of it by hand. > > Clark Martin > KK6ISP > Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
My memory is that programmer support for the various micro-controllers didn’t really come into being on the Macintosh side until Apple went with the x86 processors. Macs represent such a small market in that industry it made no sense to develop for PPC. My company send me to a conference when Atmel first released the AVRs… I had years of PIC experience and there were some aspects of the AVR which appealed to me. Not that we switched mind you… C over assembly? Really? I am the exact opposite. I find high level languages to be cumbersome, the code difficult to follow and the compiled code far too inefficient. My company did use C for some high level routines on an HC11, but all our Z-80, speed sensitive HC11 and PIC code was straight up assembly. Even the little bit of x86 code I did was in assembly. It sometimes amazes me what we were able to accomplish in 2K (or less) of code space on a PIC. Derek -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
