1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
4:59 p.m.
Which makes me
wonder what would happen if you fed it an extended instruction
that it didn't know how to deal with.
I don't know, but finding out is one of the first things on my list of
things to do once I build some boards to plug mine into and find or make a
transputer link interface (anyone got a C012 they wouldn't mind selling?). My wild-ass guess is they halt and wait for you to
assert the reset or
Assert Error?
analyze pins. What I really want to do is write a
bug-compatible emulator
for them, so people could play with transputers without having to spend
hundreds of dollars and hours :-)
Considering it took me a morning to go from 'open the Transputer
Databook' to 'Having a handwired bootable machine', I think 'hundreds of
hours is a little pesimistic. And are they really that hard to find or
expenssive that you have to spend hundreds of dollars to get one?
-tony