On Aug 20, 2005, at 10:13 PM, William Chops Westfield wrote: > Intel has never offered free SW development tools for the x86, > ... When it came out you could only program it in basic Oops. Should be "when the IBM PC came out, you could only program it in basic." And that's not quite right, since I remember using some sort of x86 cross-assembler than ran on CPM to produce code for an SDK-86 a couple years before the IBM came out... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist