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Der
Future Data war ein Entwicklungssystem für Microprozessorschaltungen
der 80er Jahre. Also praktisch ein Emulator für alle damaligen
Prozessoren. Hier eine Mail die ich in der Mailliste von www.classiccmp.org
zur Future Data gefunden habe:
I believe this is the FutureData microprocessor development
system sold around 1980-83 by GenRad, before Kontron bought the
product line from them. This was a very cool, high-powered development
tool in its day, for the popular 8-bit processors like 6802, 8085,
Z80. You would edit and assemble your code on the FData. By plugging
a 40-pin probe into the target hardware's cpu socket, you'd execute
the code in the actual target hardware under control of the FData
and its debugging software ("in-circuit emulation"). When
you were satisfied with your code you could burn it to eprom and
plug it and the processor chip back into the target hardware. These
systems were populated with somewhat specific hardware and software
to match the target microprocessor system you were designing. For
example, the box would use a 6800 cpu card, 6800 in-circuit emulator
pod, and native 6800-coded OS for Motorola work; an 8085 cpu, pod,
and an 8085-coded OS for Intel development. The proprietary operating
system was called RDOS and worked more or less the same for each
platform but, as I indicated, the OS and the applications were coded
natively for each processor they supported. They also sold a structured
Basic compiler called SBasic for the 8085/Z80 (Arlen Michaels, cctech@classiccmp.org).
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