Re: OT - 68K Cross-compiler up for download

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On Mar 22, 12:02 pm, "Bill Buckels" <bbuck...@mts.net> wrote:


> stores don't either. They send all donators to the recyclers. I guess spring
> cleanups have taken their toll. Our recyclers in turn send the computers to

And to think that I spend thousands of dollars a year on eBay to
rescue this stuff from near and far (the furthest I've imported
vintage hardware from being Australia) :(

Recycle meets in NYC are for scrap ONLY - you are forbidden to take
anything you see there. Going to one of those things must be like
looking into a certain railroad carriage in 1940s Poland...

> Someone used the analogy of building the railroad at lunch earlier in the
> day when talking about how we all built the computer industry especially

Watch this (from 1985) <http://www.archive.org/details/
CC434_asian_clones> - take note of where the guy talks about "should
we be worried that it's all moving to Asia" and he says no, because
all the design is staying in the USA and it's only manufacturing that
has moved. Well, look where that situation wound up...

Also in the same issue, I think (if not this issue, then
chronologically close to it), under breaking news at the end - the US
sold its last silicon wafer foundry to a German company.

Anyway I wouldn't expect much interest in a 68k cross-assembler in an
Apple II NG. gas - with some persuasion - is fine for generating 68k
binaries. For people who are developing directly for a vintage system,
an emulator is probably less trouble (and easier to debug) than
hooking together a cross-dev system.