[News] Nueron/NuOS: Amiga-inspired computer project based on Coldfire processors | ANN.lu |
Posted on 21-Jan-2004 19:44 GMT by Senex | 68 comments View flat View list |
In the forum of Amiga.org, Stephen Smith of Austex Software ("Uropa2") presented his Amiga-inspired project Nueron/NuOS, a Coldfire computer with its own operating system. (A german translation can be found at amiga-news.de.)
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Posted by koan on 24-Jan-2004 10:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 63 (Nate Downes): > As koan pointed out, programming an FPGA is not a trivial task.
I meant programming either an FPGA or *ASIC* for this kind of task
is not trivial.
I wish (other) people would stop suggesting on ANN that it would be
easy to knock together a new version of the custom chips using ASICs
or FPGAs, simply because the passage of time has made that technology
look very old.
> I've found that even in the same chip family, timing can vary by a few
> kilohertz.
I won't argue that you didn't experience it but I would suggest there are
other reasons. I don't think anyone would use FPGAs if they were as inaccurate
as you claim.
> in the Amiga's chipset case, where timing is accurate to within 100hz,
This is a joke, right ?
I find it very hard to believe that even the OCS used such massive tolerances.
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