FPGA VAX update

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Wed Nov 2 13:55:18 CST 2005


>
>Subject: Re: FPGA VAX update
>   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
>   Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:05:59 -0800
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>On 11/2/2005 at 10:33 AM woodelf wrote:
>
>>I guess nobody even considers building a computer from scratch. :(
>
>Actually, there are some poor demented souls who do--and not from FPGAs..  
>
>http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/simplex.html
>http://www.homebrewcpu.com/
>http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/Mk1/Architecture.htm
>http://mycpu.mikrocontroller.net/index.htm
>http://timefracture.org/D16.html
>http://tripu.triphoenix.de/Main_Page
>http://people.freenet.de/dieter.02/index.htm
>http://cpuville.4t.com/index.htm
>
>Wasn't there an article a looong time ago about a fellow who built his own
>CPU from TTL parts in BYTE or Microcomputing? (It'd have to be over 20
>years ago). 
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck

Ego a 16bit machine September 1985.  There was another article whose
focus was microprogramming vs sequential machine control and that used
the TOY1 archetecture. There were others described in TCJ Dave Brooks
simplex III comes to mind.  There are others.


Allison






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