Is it ARC compliant, or is it an earlier design?


		David/absolute

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Toru Nishimura wrote:

> Paul Vatta <vattap@netspace.net.au> wrote;
> 
> > I have 2 MIPS
> > Magnum 3000/33 (R3000 based) machines.  Does anyone know of a port
> > that supports this machine? 
> 
> Porting NetBSD to MIPS Magnum 3000 would bring a nice desktop
> computer.  Most of the hardware components are already in NetBSD
> source code tree, and porting effort would be concentrated around the
> unique DMA engine support. 
> 
> >From my volatile memory, it has
> 
> - NCR53C94 SCSI 
> - "RAMBO" DMA ASIC
> - LANCE (?)
> - PS/2 style keyboard and mouse (i8042)
> - hardclock source is fed by RAMBO ASIC
> 
> I think the ROM monitor can boot the system via TFTP (never tried
> myself).  Risc/OS had device driver source codes on somewhere in /usr
> directory, and they would serve as valuable information resources.  I
> remember that once X11 distribution contained X server source code for
> Magnum 3000.  It was a good computer as Digital's DECstation 5000
> series, I think.
> 
> Tohru Nishimura
> Nara Institute of Science and Technology
>