Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im


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Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im




Because the Z80 is a great processor, even if it's 20 years old.

>Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 07:41:46 -0800 (AKDT)
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>Subject: Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im
>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>
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>Why don't you just reprogram an existing emulator and run it on an 
Imbedded
>chip such as the 386 AMD, or if you want power, a $28 25MHz PPC 403.
>
>>I though about the multiple processors too.  depending on price and 
any
>>interfacing problems i may have during development, i may do this.
>>Perhaps three processors:  1 master and 2 slaves, with the master able
>>to assign tasks to the slaves.  This means, however, that i would need
>>the expander to be multiple access. this could be possible i guess, 
and
>>i wouldnt need to worry about the processors interfereing with each
>>others RAM, but i think it should be able to have each processor 
access
>>the screen RAM and also have a cross buffer that can be used to cross
>>processor memory transfers.  The interfaceing for these RAM parts tho
>>could be difficult.  I dont know ill havce to try it out.  Does nayone
>>knoe how much individual Z80's cost from anywhere/
>>?
>>jonathan KAus
>>kaus@cybrzn.com
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