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From: gcouger@olesun.okstate.edu (Gordon Couger)
Subject: Re: A different kind of 68HC11 development tool
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In article <1fs9tiINN4c8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bbm@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian B. Mathewson) writes:
>
>In a previous article, bbm@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian B. Mathewson) says:
>
>
>>If anyone needs a 68HC11 for their miniboard or for other projects,
>>you may want to check out New Micros Inc.  While they sell their own
>>single-board computers, they also sell a 68HC11 separately which has
>>a complete Forth burned into the ROM.  I've used it extensively and
>>it (Forth) really helps development. 
>>
>
>Oops!  The miniboard does not support external RAM, and so this
>complicates things somewhat.  Since the assembler runs on the
>68HC11 itself, it requires at least 1k, up to 3k with all the options.
>So, it will still work great if you add RAM to the miniboard, or if
>you are using some other 68HC11 board.
>
>If you want to use the miniboard and NMI's Max-Forth together, you
>can use a small program I also wrote which can target-compile individual 
>code words into a 68HC11 from any host running Forth.  This still allows 
>you to interactively create single code routines, compile them into the 
>68HC11, and try them out, but you need to be running Forth on the host.
>However, no special code is needed on the 68HC11 other than Max-Forth.
>
>Sorry about the misunderstanding, I didn't pay close enough attention
>to the miniboard's specs.  If anyone still wants it, let me know.

New Micro's 68hc11 will support the full addressing mode of the
68HC11. You just have to set the mod a and mod b pins right. I have
also disabled the internal rom and made one of their boards beleive
it was a 68HC11 EVB board.

I find their borad a very versatile board. You can get their 
100 squared board in many  configurations from single chip 
to full blown with a port  replacement unit and ram. The real
neat part is you get the same board with blank places for all
the whistles and bells. This includes a built in power supply.
They start at $79.00 to about $300.00. I bought a full blown
one for a development system and then buy what ever I need
for a target.
Good Luck
Gordon

Gordon Couger
AB5Dg   Agriculture Engineering Oklahoma State University
gcouger@olesun.agen.okstate.edu 405-744-6514 day 744-2794 evenings   
