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From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.oz.au
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Subject: Re: ET532 summary so far
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Date: 30 Apr 91 22:15:40 GMT
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Jon Loeliger writes:
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You forgot me, although you wouldn't have found out I was interested
from watching the list. I told George I was interested *ages* ago when
he asked for expressions of interest. At that stage there wasn't
enough interest but George might still have the list.

Anyway, you can add me to your list for a definite 1 (and I might get
more in subsequent runs).

If you are willing to kit parts, I am more than willing to take advantage
of the offer. However, I can see that their might be more variation in
what people want than there was with the pc532. A lot of people, (me
included) wouldn't want all those serial lines. Also, there is the
question of a GX32 vs 532 cpu. The GX should have all that is required
for a peripheral board (and at least in Australia is priced a *lot*
cheaper) but people wanting to do multiprocessing will want to run
a real operating system which will require a mmu.

Which brings us to software. The board needs to have enough smarts in
rom to down load code over the SCSI interface. That doesn't seem too hard
the pc532 monitor nearly has that. It is possible to do all the code in
a stand alone fashion, but it would be easier with some sort of mini-os.
Any one know of a suitable os which doesn't need a mmu?

Ian Dall