It wasn't that unusual. Microcomputers of the day were very limited, especially lacking memory. 4k RAM was considered to be a luxury. So many folks cross-devel

It wasn't that unusual. Microcomputers of the day were very limited, especially lacking memory. 4k RAM was considered to be a luxury. So many folks cross-developed using minicomputers. At my Uni, we often developed our tools on PDP-11 computers, especially using RSTS and BASIC, punched paper tape which could be read by hand fed paper tape readers. If you were lucky you had a ASR-33 terminal attached to your microcomputer or had a simple video card connected to a TV and a kludged up keyboard. Development systems from Intel were almost as expensive as a cheap minicomputer.