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From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
Subject: Re: ASM and the 6.270 board
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In article <8fOXXTC00UhW49dGBc@andrew.cmu.edu> jmce+@andrew.cmu.edu
(James Ryan Miller) writes: 

>    I have a question regarding the 6.270 controler board.  From what I
>understand, the Interactive C that is used with it is some sort of
>interpereter.  I am wondering if it is possible to write part of the
>code in assembly for the 6811 and still run Interactive C and access
>these functions?

Yes; IC supports loading of binary modules which are just assembled
6811 code.  You can call these assembler routines from C.

See the IC manual (chapter 7 of the 6.270 Robot Builder's Guide) for
details.  It's available via anon FTP from cher.media.mit.edu in
pub/6270/docs.

	- Fred



