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- From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Various C compilers for 6270 & Miniboard
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.063611.27522@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 06:36:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Dec20.063611.27522
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- >In article <BzF1nI.z0@world.std.com> gkulosa@world.std.com (Greg A
- >Kulosa) writes:
- >>Interactive-C (IC) works by first downloading a 'pseudo-code'
- >>interpreter to the 6.270 board. I believe that this interpreter
- >>(which is written in 68HC11 assembler) is about 10K. This is
- >>obviously way too big for the internal memory of the 68HC11 used in
- >>the Miniboard design. Then, you would also download your code
- >>produced by IC. Since the Miniboard has no capability to add external
- >>memory, you can't use IC with it.
- >
- In article <lj4lnkINN2dh@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- cmcmanis@pepper.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) asks:
-
- >Ok, would it be possible to load the interpreter into EPROM (the
- >miniboard does take a variant with 12K eprom. And then run your
- >programs out of the EEPROM ?
-
- There are a couple reasons why this would be hard. First is that the
- pcode program uses some self-modifying code, which would be
- problematic for obvious reasons if running out of any type of ROM.
- These sections could be recoded either to not use self-modifying
- techniques, or to copy themselves into a known RAM area. (It would be
- nice for this to be done anyway so that IC could be used to develop
- real ROM-based applications.)
-
- The second thing is that the 12K EPROM version of the 6811 has only
- 512 bytes of EEPROM. This isn't really enough to do much of anything
- in terms of being a main code space area.
-
- Perhaps if someone wrote a sub-set of the pcode program, say about
- 500 to 700 bytes long, and then modified the host side of IC to
- compile for this subset, the approach would be workable.
-
-
- - Fred
-