Classic embedded development tools

[woodelf]

Tim Shoppa wrote:

>The FPGA/Xilinx swearing around here reminds me...
>
>Many years ago (OK, decades, actually a good chunk of a
>century now) the tools for doing embedded software development from
>the manufacturers were:
>
>1.  Distributed as source code
>2.  Widely portable
>3.  Well-documented in terms of file formats
>
>Examples are the Intel 8008 PL/M compiler they released in Fortran
>and the original PALASM (Monolithic Memories?) in Fortran.
>
>  
>
But then they changed Fortran compilers. $#!%
You can still get the source, just you can't compile on new machines easy.