Re: [N8VEM-S100:4751] Re: An ARM CPU on the S100 bus

[Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net>]

I'll throw my hat in the ring too since I'm interested as well.

Todd

* David Fry <dgf...@googlemail.com> [140730 12:50]:
> Hi John,
>  
> both Vince and Andrew have made mention of an interest in seeing a version 
> of DEC mini computer technology brought onto the S100 bus (if this is 
> possible).
> This idea is beginning to grow on me and I would like to add my interest to 
> the number (now 3 :-) )
> I have no experience whatsoever in this area of vintage computing, but what 
> a trip down the history of computing it could be.
>  
> I noticed that the HD1-6120 seems to be available in small numbers 
> (including from UT source)
> http://www.ebay.com/sch/Business-Industrial-/12576/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=hd1-6120
>  
> and also the DCJ11 although price is somewhat higher
> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dcj11
>  
> or maybe some other significant vintage mini...., again I'm not sure how 
> practical a suggestion this is but with the Z80 done and the Intel x86 
> track done my processor interests are now covered.
>  
> regards
>  
> David Fry
> 
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:58:58 PM UTC+1, monahanz wrote:
> 
> >  I have been doing some long term planning as to the direction I would 
> > take in doing new S100 boards.  To recap, we now have a 6502, Z80, 8080 
> > (Josh), 68000, 8088, 8086, 80286 and soon an 80386 set of boards on the 
> > S1000 bus.  Andrew and I have already started laying out an 80486 board.  
> >
> >   
> >
> > Since I do a lot of flying on business I have time to read up on chips and 
> > recently I have been thinking what would be the best way to get ARM CPU's 
> > on the bus.  There are many types, and while one could start with a bare 
> > chip it does seem to make more sense to start with an embedded module.  
> > There are many of these, most of which boot up Linux immediately.  One 
> > particular one I'm fairly impressed with is an Italian one called "Aria 
> > G25"   see:-
> >
> >  
> >
> > *http://www.acmesystems.it/aria* <http://www.acmesystems.it/aria>
> >
> >  
> >
> > Also it lends itself to easy pin splicing/layout on a board. It has good 
> > documentation and software support. I particularly like the fact that it 
> > has 60 GPIO pins.  These could be easily spliced into our S100 bus so we 
> > could use our current boards for I/O.  (In fact at 400MHz, one could also 
> > use the S100 RAM!).   I know some of you will view this as sticking a 
> > Lamborghini engine in a Volkswagen, but would it not be neat to see Linus 
> > running on the S100 bus.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Comments please, in particular I would be interested in any other similar 
> > modules. 
> >
> >  
> >
> > John
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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