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CONV-86 came on 8" floppy disk for the ISIS-II operating system on Intel MDS development boxes. Even if you found a copy, you'd need an MDS-80 to run it on. Af
by drmpeg 6y ago
CONV-86 came on 8" floppy disk for the ISIS-II operating system on Intel MDS development boxes. Even if you found a copy, you'd need an MDS-80 to run it on.
After the IBM PC came out, everyone tossed their MDS-80 systems when Intel started to provide their tools on MS-DOS.
With the current interest in retro computing, I wish I had saved more stuff from back then. I kick myself for not saving an Intel i960CA evaluation board that I used in 1992. I loved the i960 architecture and developed quite a few products with it.
However, I still have the processor from that board because I replaced it with an i960CF.
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- billforsternz 6y agoThe funny thing is, back in the day I wrote a 8080 emulator that could run CP/M programs on MS-DOS, and then I went the extra mile and adapted it to run ISIS-II programs for the Intel blue boxes we had. There were some 8051 Dev tools I thought were worth bringing over. But that would have been in the 80s, and the 8 inch drives went to the landfill decades ago. So yeah.
- rwmj 6y agoOf course if you had a NEC V20/V30 (pin-compatible 8086 clone), it had a special mode for running 8080 code! It couldn't run Z80 code because it lacked the extensions like LDIR.
- billforsternz 6y agoIf you read the GitHub page I linked to earlier you'll see I digress as far as a discussion of the NEC V20 :)