shawn@mit-eddie.UUCP (07/15/86)
Anyone care to take a shot at building this type of system, cheap? o Small in size o High speed 16 [greater] bit processor o Meg+ memory o Good winnie storage, 20+ meg o Expandable, with good, well documented bus, S100/IBM-PC type o Co-processor capability o Must have UNIX support capability, though a current port of UNIX is not required. Ideas/help welcome. Thanks, - Shawn
wsr@lmi-angel.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (07/16/86)
In article <> shawn@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Shawn F. Mckay) writes: >Anyone care to take a shot at building this type of system, cheap? > o Small in size > o High speed 16 [greater] bit processor > o Meg+ memory > o Good winnie storage, 20+ meg > o Expandable, with good, well documented bus, S100/IBM-PC type > o Co-processor capability > o Must have UNIX support capability, though a current port of > UNIX is not required. Look at this months Byte (the magazine that most people buy for the ads!). It has an article about Defcon's (sp?) 12Mhz 68020 (w. fpu and mmu) board. The cost (minus mmu) is $1,0100. The board is an IBM-pc master and slave board. It looks like you could use this board, a cheap 20 meg winnie on an IBM-pc card (~$500-$1000), and an expansion box with backplane and power supply to get a respectable unix box. Might be just the thing for GNU! While this won't quite give you Sun 3 class speeds, it should still run circles around 780's. -- Wolfgang Rupprecht {harvard|decvax!cca|mit-eddie}!lmi-angel!wsr