Re: All this talk of a new GS...

[Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net>]

Jonas Bevren wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Frank Carney wrote:
> 
> > What about an embedded processor like a 386 or 486 running an optimized
> > IIGS core.  Virtual memory would be easier considering the 386 and up
> > has it built into the chip.  Then you would have a super fast processor
> > using cheap hardware.  You could have an effective 4 gigabyte address
> > space!  Well, something like that anyway.
> 
> If you look closely, you'll see that a K6II-400 is cheaper than you'll find
> most embedded 386s and 486s these days.  PII-400's sell for $100 at a
> certain irritating auction site <grin> quite often.  Cyrix cpu's, with their
> quite superior integer math machine, are almost a dime a dozen =)
> 
> -Jonas


I was talking about building a non-IBM compatible system that connects
directly to the IIgs CPU socket.  I was not talking about the embedded
systems that can run Win95 and can support PC-104 cards.  I was thinking
of building a system that runs a core with none of the crap that is in
the PC now.  And yes, if this project were to mature to bigger faster
processors such as the 400Mhz machines that would be great.  I guess
when people think of "embedded" they think of an embedded PC.  I want
this thing to fit in the original IIgs case, but not be a full PC.