22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
5:31 p.m.
In article <m1GmeRt-000IypC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
Oh for %deity's sake....
No, nobody so far had suggested replacing the CPU boards with an FPGA.
But surely I am allowrd to consider other aspects of using FPGAs (or
anything else for that matter) in classic computing and decide, and then
post, what I would, and would not, want to do.
But I would not want to replace the CPU boards in
the PDP8/e on my desk
with a board containing an FPGA + level shifters.
Just like noone was talking about replacing this list with a wiki,
noone on this thread has talked about *replacing* CPU boards on a
vintage machine with an FPGA.
What *was* talked about was making an FPGA equivalent processor so
that it could be dropped into a board sans CPU to make the board
function again.
And as I said last night, that seems to be a very sensible thing to do.
-tony