"digiboards" used to use the same sort of thing, a mini controller on the
board to handle the comms between each port and the host devices.
They used to have firmware uplaoded to them on boot using the drivers,
a quick google search came up with this...
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=2205731&list=59
http://he.fi/archive/linux-hams/199906/0363.html
http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=specialix+si%2…
hope these help
Charles 'Thunder' Blackburn
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http://www.tsncentral.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Dahl Pind" <rachael(a)rachael.dyndns.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: poormans transputer
I found a specialix si/xio multi serial port
controler, sadly without
the cables and actual link modules, it uses a ST t225 tranputer along
with 64kb memory.
As I looked at the linux software for it, it seems as I could upload
a small program to it and make it run, Anyone tried such a thing ?