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From: garlick@csuchico.edu (Jim Garlick)
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Subject: Re: 680X0 dream machine
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Date: 12 Apr 90 23:31:11 GMT
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This is wierd, but aren't there literally tons of S100 IO cards and
busses out there that can be had for next-to-nothing?  And wouldn't
it be possible to put a 68030, SCSI interface, and SIMM sockets on
one board, so the slow bus bandwidth need only be used for talking to
serial cards, eprom programers, fdc's, and all that other old junk that
everybody's throwing away?  Remember those old Northstar Horizon's?
Didn't they have nice boxes?

We could port gcc, mach...