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From: strohm@mksol.dseg.ti.com (john r strohm)
Subject: Re: Searching for 8088-based microcontroller/board
Message-ID: <1993Nov3.224658.25263@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 22:46:58 GMT
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In article <2b8ufd$ofd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> rg41172@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rajeev  Goel) writes:
>Does anyone know of a micro-controller which uses an instruction set
>similar to (if not identical to) Intel 8088 processors?  If so, is
>there a board out there which uses such a micro-controller, and also
>boasts features similar to 6.270 or the HC11 miniboard (i.e. analog,
>digital ports, etc.)?  Any references, pointers, or information would
>be appreciated.  I'm also looking for compilers, downloaders, etc. to 
>work with such a board (if one is out there).  Thanks in advance.

Sure, Intel 80186 and Intel 80188.  Several people make industrial boards.
Check Micro-Mint (they advertise in "Computer Applications Journal").
Also, the NEC V25 is very similar; several people make industrial V25 boards.
Check the usual magazines.

Almost any decent C compiler that targets 80x86 can be used to build code
for such a board.  You may have some hassles converting your .EXE file, but
it actually isn't that bad.  The .EXE file format is strange, but when I had
to hack it a few years back, it wasn't TOO much pain.
