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From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
Subject: Re:  6.270 Board order for netters
Message-ID: <1993Jul15.022222.15461@news.media.mit.edu>
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References: <1993Jul14.181126.16478@compass-da.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 02:22:22 GMT
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In article <1993Jul14.181126.16478@compass-da.com>
smadsen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steve Madsen) writes: 

>As many of the readers of this group already know,
>the 6.270 boardset is designed to talk specifically
>to MIT's VAX machines, which enables the 6811 to be
>programmed, etc.

This isn't quite true.  The 6.270 board can communicate with just
about any computer that has a serial port.  

While the custom software for the 6.270 board was developed on Unix
machines, it was written in portable C and has been ported to MS-DOS
and Macintosh platforms, not to mention a variety of Unix platforms.

>My question:  is there a simple modification that will
>enable the 6811 to be easily programmed from a PC, 
>or something similar to this?  In
>other words, to allow programming the 6811 from a machine
>other than those accessible to students of the 6.270
>course at MIT.

Please look at the distribution FTP server cherupakha.media.mit.edu in
directory pub/6270/interactive-c.  You will find executable binaries
and sources for variety of platforms including a number of Unix
machines and MS-DOS.

(The Macintosh port is brand-new and should be available in a month or
so.  As far as I know, the Amiga is the only major platform to which
the software has not been ported.)

	-Fred 

