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In article <83139@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> nebojsa jaksic <neb@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
->Hi,
->I came across a development kit from Intel for their 8085. It is
->called SDK-85 and it is a "complete single board microcomputer
->system including CPU, memory and I/O." and it is very old.
->
->question: Did they make anything like that for 8086, 8088, 80286 or
->even 80386? Any ideas, how much these cost and where would be the
->best place to look for them?

      We had an SDK-85 many, many years ago.  It was "ok" for getting familar
   with a "new" microprossor but for development purposes we used Intel's
   MDS-225.  While Intel's marketing department may refer to the SDK's as
   a "development kit", I think "evaluation kit" is much more accurate.

      Intel has also offered an SDK-51 (8051) and probably similar kits
   for other procesors too.

      The SDK's we purchased (8085 and 8051) came with hexidecimal keypads
   and six or eight digit LED displays.  No standard keyboard, no crt 
   support, no disk drives, programming was in machine code (NOT assembler).

      You may want the SDK-85 if you want a cheap way to learn a little
   something about the 8085 -but why bother ?  The 8085 is over 15 years old !