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I'll reiterate a couple of points I made some months ago... How about building command line versions of the compiler and downloader? One advantage for the developer is that they can use their favorite editor and build environment rather than the BasicX environment which aggravates me mightily. I'll take this even further and suggest a Linux version of these tools. Another useful thing would be to build the downloader into a redistributable DLL. The host program could download the BX microcode to it and let the downloader handle the details. The use of this system is in cases where PC code is tightly integrated with BX, such as in instrumentation and control situations where the BX is handling the I/O and the PC app is displaying it nicely on the screen. This would allow things like an instrumentation toolkit, where an instrument would consist of the PC code to allow display, user interaction etc, and BX microcode to drive the low level I/O. Given the number of requests I've seen for more I/O capability, something like this would fit in quite well.

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