[Coco] 6809 compilers

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/07/2014 10:49 AM, Kandur wrote:
> Thank you William, for the explanation.
> I should apologize for the incorrect subject of this thread.
> "6809 assemblers" may have been better, even tho, an assembler is a
> type of a compiler that translates assembly language  source code to machine code.
> That's all I wanted to do.
> Learning from the many great help I received, perhaps the best subject should have been,
> "6809  assemblers for OS-9".
> Wondering, what tools may have been used by the author in 1982,
> to produce this code?  http://qdv.pw/eng/_text/Coco/lrt-sb.zip

That code would probably have been assembled by the OS-9 asm assembler, 
running under the OS-9 operating system.  Probably OS-9 Level I, 
possibly on a 64K CoCo, or maybe another 6809-based computer like a 
GIMIX or SWTPC.

JCE

> Kandur
>
> Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 10:39:10 PM, you wrote:
>> On 14-08-06 11:29 PM, Kandur wrote:
>>> Just wondering, what is the "hg" means in the lwtools-hg20130419-win32.zip ?
>> "hg" is the usual abbreviation for Mercurial (a revision control
>> system). I would assume that is a build based on the contents of the
>> mercurial repository on April 19, 2013.
>> In case anyone is wondering why "hg", "Hg" is the chemical symbol for
>> mercury.