11 Feb
2007
11 Feb
'07
5:04 p.m.
Grant Stockly wrote:
Interesting... others have mentioned the 68k line... what about something
really oddball though, like m88k or ARM? :)
* Although if
you're going to bodge Linux, why not use something other
than an x86 CPU?
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 Any one know of any good 8bit VGA cards? ; )
Hmm, in the PC world Trident did an ISA one (8900?), and I'm pretty sure
Paradise did too. Possibly Oak's offering was also 8 bit.
Oh, regarding the SCSI question, most 8 bitters didn't bother with a complete
SCSI chip; it can be done with only ten or so LS logic ICs anyway, providing
blistering performance isn't needed (and lets face it, no performance is going
to be blistering if there's an 8-bit CPU handling all the I/O, dedicated SCSI
chip or not :)
cheers
Jules