27 Jun
1998
27 Jun
'98
11:56 a.m.
On Jun 27, 14:41, Hotze wrote:
Would it be possible to have a control chip and a OS
chip? You've got
the
control chip, which contains address information on
the OS chip, as well
as
other EXTREMELY basic ssytem info. Then you've
got the OS chip, which
contains the OS. Because of the control chip, it could be as large as
you
wanted it.
I've also heard of a "Windows 98 on a chip" system, with 75MBPS
through
put. Sounds like the first decent way to load
Windows...
Well, you typically need 4 chips, since most ROMs are 8-bit wide, and most
current processors are 32-bit, but allowing a little poetic licence,
Windows on a chip is possible (and Windows CE is just that).
PS-Did any computers have GUI's built in? I think
that I recall that
a Tandy did, but nothing else...
Amiga? Archimedes/RISC PC? Atari ST/MegaST? all those have the GUI in
ROM.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York