14 Aug
2013
14 Aug
'13
6 a.m.
On 2013-08-13 13:09, yoda wrote:
Not sure it makes sense on an S-100 board as the
address space is limited
to 16 MB. It will probably be an SBC with a couple hundred MB of memory -
when we start getting in the GB range it is not quite as practical and the
old chips are limited to 4GB anyway without a lot of additional memory
decode tricks. I can probably get old version of NetBSD flavor running on
even a 68K with some tricks - at least I will be able to gauge the
complexity.
Not sure about the GB range, I thought we are still talking about
"vintage/classic" systems.
But anyway, something like a little board (credit card sized?) with a
small FPGA, 256Mbyte DDR2 SDRAM & level shifter seem feasible,
and could be reused on other systems too ...
Should be plenty of RAM to run old stuff ...
Cheers