Re: IIgs Accelerator Project

[Frank Carney <frankcTAKETHISOUT@ANDTHISALSOsrv.net>]

Update:
I now have a working 8088 circuit!  It is very exciting it turns on a
led!

The circuit is surprisingly simple.  All it has in it now is an 8088,
8284, 3 74373s (for address latch and buffering), a 74245 (data bus
buffer), a 7404, a 7432, a EPROM, and a 74373 (for port ouput to light
the led).

Anyway, I know it is not much, but it is a start!  Also, I did some
searches for higher speed microcontrollers and I found that the 8051 can
be had in speeds up to 40Mhz.  Does anyone know if there are higher
speed 8088s available and where?  I know that GE PLCs use a 16Mhz 80188
so I hope there are faster 8088s available.  This would make upgrading
the speed a lot easier and easier to create faster accelerator models. 
The complexity of breadboarding a 8088 as compared to a 386 is at least
16 fold due to the number of bus lines!