Subject: Re: NuVAX revisited
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/26/2001 16:42:40
I have a full 11/750 print set here too, but theyre evidently a 4 inch 
thick pile of 11x17 xeroxes, and after looking closely, the quality
of the copies is not so great, and on some things is enough to not follow 
a couple traces. are your prints any better? 

on the same note, does anybody have any means of rapidly scanning these 
things into a pile of postscript of even pdfs or something? 

i have some friend shere with access to lots of xilinx and verilog stuff,
it might not be too impractical to try to make a 750 on a chip. I'd go 
with the 750 and not the 780, i think there were a lot of advances in 
those couple years. 
What about i/o though?
If we stick a bus on it, id choose turbochannel :)

(it would be imperative, though, to have something that talks MSCP for a
disk adaptor.. mmmmmm scsi3-mscp... yummy) 

isildur

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 
>   I believe I have KA780 and KA750 prints here if anyone wants to try
> this.  It could be lots of fun, and highly educational.
> 
>         -Dave McGuire
> 
> On June 26, Chuck McManis wrote:
> > Easily if you have the prints.
> > --Chuck
> > 
> > At 11:24 AM 6/26/01 -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:38:17PM -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Could we design a system around these things and make it credible?
> > > > Should we? I imagine neat things one might do with a custom computer
> > > > but the overhead of supporting it would be INTENSE! Compilers,
> > > > applications, OS, drivers, alone would kill me.
> > >
> > >I hate to beat a dead horse, but it should be possible to put the
> > >original 11/780 TTL design into a modern CPLD device, no?
> > >
> > >--
> > >   Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com
> > 
>