29 Dec
2008
29 Dec
'08
12:01 p.m.
Has anyone here ever seriously considered trying to get CP/M-68k running
on an older Sun machine, say, a Sun 2 or 3?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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6:57 p.m.
On 12/29/08, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
Has anyone here ever seriously considered trying to get CP/M-68k running
on an older Sun machine, say, a Sun 2 or 3?
I have always thought the Amiga 500 might be a good target. It's well
documented, and easy to bootstrap. Additionally, they're cheap and
plentiful still.
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Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
30 Dec
30 Dec
7:32 a.m.
Joachim Thiemann wrote:
On 12/29/08, David Griffith <dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
Can the disk controller be easily driven? I had the impression that the
Amiga's controller was less than easy to talk to (because it was so flexible),
which might make writing disk routines a bit of a pain (same's true of Sun, I
suppose).
Has anyone here ever seriously considered trying
to get CP/M-68k running
on an older Sun machine, say, a Sun 2 or 3?
I have always thought the Amiga 500 might be a good target. It's well
documented, and easy to bootstrap. Additionally, they're cheap and
plentiful still.
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