24 Nov
2006
24 Nov
'06
9:13 a.m.
On Nov 24, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
The thought occurred to me that it might be nice to
have the
floating-point option in my PDP-11/73. Since I haven't got one,
and don't fancy paying the $500 or so that some online sellers seem
to be asking (do they really expect to sell *any*, never mind at
that price?), I was wondering how easy it would be to implement in
an FPGA as was discussed at length earlier in the week.
Feasible, or a complete waste of time? Presumably I'd need
software written to make use of the floating-point hardware anyway...
I think it would be a very interesting and highly educational
project. It'd be pretty difficult, in my opinion...but if you have
the time to do it, think of the cool stuff you'd learn in the process!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL