LispOS on a 68000
Chris Hanson
cmh@greendragon.com
Fri, 15 May 1998 20:41:48 -0500
At 8:20 PM -0500 5/14/98, Greg Menke wrote:
>I hate to insert the evil "I", but there are some high integration x86
>cpus, which makes homebrewing lots easier. Onboard serial, digital I/O,
>interrupt hardware and address decoding- that sort of thing.
There's also a very high integration ARM design. (710? 740? Something
like that.) Within the last year, Circuit Cellar INK -- great magazine,
by the way -- had a two-part article on designing with it. Not only does
it have all of the above, but I believe it has DRAM control, PC keyboard &
mouse support, and SVGA video support *on-chip* as well. NetBSD has been
ported to the design, which may have been an ARM evaluation board. In
fact, vendor evaluation boards might be another interesting way to go.
Otherwise, I think one of the public 030 designs with ISA slots would be
cool. Just pick one video board and one SCSI board, and use standard PC
controller boards for floppy/parallel/serial/mouse/etc. At that point,
drivers become pretty "easy."
I believe the public 030 design I've seen comes from Indiana, but I could
be way off-base on that. In any case, it seemed an intellectual descendant
of the PT-68K board presented during 1987 and 1988 in Radio-Electronics...
I also really like the 68000 series of CPUs. It's the pinnacle of CISC
instruction set design, though there are probably DEC-10 people who will
disagree with me. :)
(Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to modify one of the boards to take a
68060. Or if the available Amiga 060 upgrades plug in to the 020/030 CPU
socket..)