TDS-PC for Windows runs
on your PC and provides a development environment including terminal
emulation and storage of source code in standard text files on
disk.
Your program is compiled and debugged on-line in the TDS2020F or TDS9092,
not in the PC; the interactive operation gives high programmer
productivity.
TDS-PC for Windows causes the PC to emulate a terminal.
Any key typed is passed to the serial link for transmission to
the TDS2020F or TDS9092 in your prototype; any character
sent by the Forth computer is received and passed to the screen.
You edit source code files in one or more text windows with full
cut-and-paste between them. You may compile a whole file (including
ones it calls) or just a highlighted section.
TDS-PC for Windows is free for download.
It may be useful to you for evaluation but of course it really
needs to be connected to a TDS2020F or TDS9092.
It is also on the CD in Starter Packs.
Source code can be laid out with lots of comments and correctly
indented structures. Single keys invoke compilation and other features.
There is an INCLUDE facility so that source files can be nested.
There is interfacing to your usual source-code text editor so that
writing is made easier.
Once your program is developed and working nothing else is needed.
No PROM programmer is needed with TDS2020F because the code
has been compiled into non-volatile Flash-EEPROM. You now have
a stand alone system which
will power up into the chosen procedure.
