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I seem to recall that in the "early days" (late 70's), nobody used Zilog tools.
It was all third-party assemblers, and compilers. 
There must have been a reason for that. Probably the same as today.

Very apropos Atmel  - chip-makers should stick to making chips !

/Jesper

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Davies" <YahooGroups@ecrostech.com>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:06 PM
Subject: [AVR-Chat] OT - ZiLOG Z8 Encore! (was ... AVR Studio not a complete ...)


> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Curtis" <plc@r...> wrote:
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> > I have an Ecore! development system
> > and the Zilog compiler *has*
> > improved since the early days.
> > But it's still not as good as
> > it could be.
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> True, but it's not as good as it needs to be either for serious work. 
> I have reported many defects to ZiLOG and release after release goes 
> by without fixes. I have sunk a lot of effort into that MCU - an 
> RTOS, Flash Loader and Prototyping System - and I'm at the point of 
> trashing it all. I sure hope the AVR and Atmel are a hell of a lot 
> better. Trouble is, that stuff already exists for the AVR.
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> > ... it's very decent for the price.
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> True. It is nominally free (comes with the ZiLOG evaluation board), 
> so it's hard to say it's not worth the price of nothing.
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> > IAR have lost interest in Zilog,
> > I think, and are not providing
> > Encore! compilers.
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> I tried to persuade the Director of third party tools at ZiLOG that 
> he needed to consider bringing an outside source of a compiler on 
> line but he was satisfied with their internal development.  ZiLOG 
> want to do it all themselves. He is no longer at the company.
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> Graham.
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