Create a VAX CPU with FPGA?

[9000 VAX]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:17:32 +0800, Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:47:06 -0500, Curt @ Atari Museum
> <curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
> > I personally would rather see some more hobbyist work on PCI Qbus and/or
> > Unibus cards, the current commercial ones run $2500-$3000 and it would
> > be GREAT to run SimH and have access to all the drives, tape systems and
> > so forth directly with something more like $250-$500 vs the $2500-$3000
> > cards.
> 
> I don't know about other listmembers, but I'd hazard a guess to say
> that we have more CPUs (either Qbus or Unibus) than peripherals. Like
> for myself, I don't even have a single bootable device for my 8/M,
> 8/E, and my Unibus 11s (at least Qbus I have MFMs and DSSIs).
> 
> So I think it'd be a boon to the collecting community in general to
> work on Qbus and Unibus interfaces to modern storage devices, either
> SCSI (which is abundantly and cheaply found) or IDE (means as a bonus
> we can use CF cards too).
> 
> p.s. 9000, I'm watching your Qbus-SCSI project very closely..
> p.p.s. Any chance of doing a Unibus one? please.... :-)

No plan yet. :(

> 
> Just my RM0.02.
> /wai-sun
>