MCS-51 Basic
MCS-51 Basic
Intel MCS-51 (aka 8051) was developed by Intel in 1980.
Somewhere in 1985 one of Intel engineers created a BASIC interpreter for this processor
and the fun just started.
One of my boards with the absolute minimum configuration…
- Atmel 89C52 (8052 clone) burned with the MCS-51 Basic
- 74LS373
- 62265 aka 32Kbytes memory. YES this is 32768 bytes of RAM
You connected the power press space 2-3 times and the familiar basic prompt showed up
Commands:
- PRINT MTOP: Printed the maximum available memory of the system (32768 bytes)
- The second is an Easter egg from the developer of the MCS-51 basic
To be continued…
Last update: 01/12/2011
