FPGA VAX update

[Bjørn Vermo]

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:33:11 +0100, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> Bjørn Vermo wrote:
>
>>
>> Apple comes to mind. You can pick up a G4 really cheap these days.  
>> Whether you want to run BSD (OS X) or Linux is a matter of taste.
>> IBM have some PPc development systems (Walnut if I recall right) which  
>> can run both Linux and QNX, but I have no idea how to get one or what  
>> they sell for.
>
> I guess nobody even considers building a computer from scratch. :(
>
I have not done that after Intel announced the 4004, although it would be  
fun.
By scratch I assume you mean designing the CPU, not using an existing  
processor.

In this case I had the impression that the idea was to actually get  
something done, and a custom design seems a rather inefficient way to  
accomplish it. In any case, you would obviously have to port the OS as  
well, so it would not be "a computer which runs UNIX" as I understand it -  
until after the port was made.

If I were to make a new computer design, I would in any case want to  
develop it together with a new operating system. UNIX has led to commodity  
systems at the cost of interesting design in my opinion.

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