11 Feb
2007
11 Feb
'07
4 a.m.
At 06:18 PM 2/10/2007, you wrote:
Grant Stockly wrote:
Fellow cctalker Rich Cini just ruined my evening... I forgot about an easy
solution. Wire a PC/104 SBC into an S-100 card.
http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts3400-spec-p.php
Like I needed to be spending money right now! Ahhh!!! In order to not be
a complete joke, I would have a CPLD inserting wait states and at least
having a 2SIO in there.
Who knows, maybe an ISA to S-100 bridge like this could be used with a real
Altair Disk subsystem to make disk images?
You are right though, putting a 386 SBC inside of an Altair is just like
saying a toaster can "run linux". Maybe I'll load Windows 95 on it. ; )
The front panel would have to function too. The CPLD might have to
relocate the memory space and possibly also emulate DMA to make it work.
Any one know of any good 8bit VGA cards? ; )
Grant
I thought you guys would get a kick out of this.
No, I am not attempting to build a beowulf cluster...
The ultimate Altair needs to run Linux. I spent the first few hours
today thinking up an S-100 card with a 386 processor. : )
Surely you've then got an S100 card running Linux that happens to use an
Altair as an I/O processor?
Don't get me wrong, it's a cool enough project* (and very akin to the
various coprocessors for the BBC micro which ran all sorts of software),
but I'm not sure if I'd call it an Altair running Linux :-)
* Although if you're going to bodge Linux, why not use something other
than an x86 CPU?