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From: perry@well.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ASDG & HD
Message-ID: <3200@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 12:53:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 12:53:09 1987
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In article <1565@stb.UUCP>, michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
> In article <1316@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Rich A Miner (.RAM)) writes:
> >controller.  The SDP will have its own 68000, an MMU to manage non-
> >contiguous buffers, a half MEG of RAM, and also DMA hardware.  The
> 
> Wait a sec--Can I reprogram this thing for general purpose stuff? Just
> write some communication software to talk to a window on the amiga, port
> unix over, and Presto!
> 
> Perry, can you change that to a 68010? Please?

I should note that the MMU is not a 68851 but rather is a discrete design
tuned to the things we need it to do. So, porting Un*x is not that straight
forward (it never is, is it?)

The 68010 would add cost to the end user price which right now looks like it
will be quite reasonable. We don't want to push it though. 

Although - you could always drop one in I suppose...

Perry