In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > >> I use RISC OS, as well as QL and PC ... so you are in good company :-) > >Risc PC 700/SA@287MHz, plus a LART (www.lart.tudelft.nl)
I am using an 'older' generation, an A3000, with upgraded SCSI 1 interface. >> ARM have made considerable progress with the RISC chips ... they even >> have INTEL on board now, after all these years ... > >I wouldn't say they have Intel on board. Intel won the intellectual >property that is the difference between an ARM and a Digital StrongARM in >a lawsuit with Digital. They saw the embedded marketplace as the largest >growth area in the future, and they were right - by controlling their >already-biggest competing product, well... He .. he .. good to see you have not lost the scepticism :-) >> The problem with the Motorola 68000 series is that they aren't making >> them anymore. > >They do. Unfortunately, it's something of a poor relation. They're made on >.5 or .65u processes with aluminium interconnects - generally very old >hat. If they were fabbed at even .25u, they would happily run at >250-400MHz speeds. But that would cost a few tens of millions of bucks ;) Indeed ... the new development is not being invested in. Is the supply of 68000 series still assured for the forseeable future ? >Is there any QDOS/compatible OS that's written in C? I could try to get it >converted to compile on ARM chips - I realize for QDOS itself that's a >no-no, as it's basically hand assembly... what's the nearest to a version >of QDOS written in C? > >Finally, with "open hardware", and/or doing it the old-fashioned way, >what is the likely interest in a QL-compatible SBC? note the Q40/Q60 are >not an SBC - an SBC would have the interfaces and connectors all built >onto the same board. I can hunt around for a schematic for the original QL >and dig out my SQB schematics and see what else could be added in... This >isn't likely to happen, but if it was, what would people be looking for? > >Not getting anyone's hopes up, but asking seriously... -- Malcolm Cadman
