Subject: Re: Digital NC (was: Wakefield show)
To: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
From: Peter Berg <Peter.Berg@ww.tu-freiberg.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/20/1997 21:20:53
> What we were demoing at Wakefield was a reference design (maybe this wasn't
> made quite clear enough). You will have to wait until people start producing
> products based on it. I'm sure that any interesting announcements will make
> their way onto this mailing list in due course. Watch this space...
>
> PS NCOS2 will currently act as an X-Server. I don't know what NCI's future
> plans are but I think it is probably safe to say that someone somewhere will
> support X on it.
Only to make things clearer:
Will the NC be able to run a complete RiscBSD including X-windows so that it
can be used the same way under BSD as currently the RiscPC's ? I'm not
intrested in any kind of NC OS, I like to know whether it would be possible to
run it with RiscBSD or with a customized NetBSD/arm32 so that I either can use
it as a fast SA-110 diskless workstation, netbooted X-terminal or even with a
customized NetBSD version for a completly diffrent kind of usage then a NC
(spectrum analyzer or a kind of 'set-top-box'-style application with
selfwritten software).
Is there something like the RiscPC console device on it or is it even
compatible to the existing console driver on the RPC ?
If this is not the case and it will only be a NC, then I forget about it :(
Thanks in advance,
Ciao, Peter
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