30 Nov
2011
30 Nov
'11
5:52 p.m.
On Nov 30, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Tom wrote:
You might even have more luck trying to hack OpenBSD/m88k into working; I hear they've
fixed the GCC bug that was breaking it.
I've always wanted to play with an m88k system, but again with the lack of space;
I'd be interested in building an FPGA emulation, because it's such a clean RISC
design that it should be pretty straightforward. I managed to find a copy of the
88100/88200 datasheets, which should be what's necessary to do it.
Now to acquire a vast load of spare time...
- Dave
I might be soon coming into possession of some
Data General stuff. Maybe an Aviion 66. There's a second one, maybe a model 37?
I'm not sure. No drives. I'm going to see what's there and post the inventory
in the next few weeks. I've never heard of any demand for these; anyone know if there
would be any interest?
Well the m88k-based systems tickle my interest (for no other reason than the choice of
CPU) - I think they switched over to boring ol' Intel at some point, though :-)
I don't know how widespread copies of the OS are, and if there are any
'gotchas' involved with rebuilding a machine that's lacking disks...