Re: You guys are NUTS !

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:34:54 -0600, Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>
wrote:

>I have been giving this some thought and wonder how hard it would be to
>duplicate the GS functionality with alternate electronics. I remember
>once an A2 clone which used a completely different processor, a 68000
>or something like that. It seems to me that it would be possible to make
>a GS compatible system on a single PCB with the proper connections for
>either a bus or peripherals. But I'm not an electronics engineer, so I'm
>just guessing.

Well, I took Electronics Technology in college (3 year course on how
to design electronic devices) but I missed a couple credits and as
there were no job prospects in that field around here, I didn't try
very hard to make them up so I never got my diploma.  I'm hoping to
talk to the college sometime this year and see about getting my
diploma finally.

At any rate, designing a computer isn't all that difficult but it
require some special equipment and can be quite time consuming.  Not
to mention that making multiple layer printed circuit boards can be a
problem but it is certainly doable.

It would even be possible to take a Pentium or some other machine and
write boot code that would load in the 65816 emulator core and then
boot GS/OS just like a IIgs.  Mind you, this is an extreme
oversimplification of the process as there are lots of other things to
deal with.  :-)

I have lots of ideas but I'm still not in a position monetarily or
time wise to start working on something this big.

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