Re: co processor board for a2's

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

Cturley2 <cturley2@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The IIgs DSP card that was under development (about 85% done - as I
recall) by
> Pete Snowberg and Ernest Moore seems like a good avenue to
> research for somebody to complete it and perhaps even put it into
production.
> There's a fair amount of information about it on the ground ftp site
also - if
> anybody is really interested in reviewing it and what it could offer as a
> coprocessor with enhancement abilities for use with the IIgs.
>
> I may even be able to still contact both Pete and Ernest about turning
whatever
> they have left of it all over to somebody that's really serious about
taking
> the project on for completion.  They both live near me.

This is just a dream, but what I'm thinking is putting the biggest "single
chip computer" on a card, and then some ROM that would make it listen for
Apple commands. I have no idea how this would all work, btw. This isn't an
accelerator. Wonder if there would be bandwidth problems?