Return to the archive index

Re: No action on the Z80? Who says? :)

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 Clint <> wrote:
[snip]
> 32K may have been enough for the Commodore 64, but even they had tape
> drives.

Ahem. Excuse me...
The commodore 64 had a full 64K of ram: about 56K of which was accessabe
without fiddling registers, and something like 50K available to BASIC. :)
You were perhaps thinking of the much inferior AppleII?

> External storage or 
> communication with another sort of computing device which has additional 
> storage and computing power is my next intended step for the project.

I have a lot of interest in multi-processor type arrangements.
I had started to design a system based on z80s along these lines (add
another CPU module as you can afford it) but then I did the math and
figured out how cheap pentiums really were, bang for buck. :)

So then my requirements expanded to hetrogenous processor environments,
but that gets you away from the really low-end stuff.

So what I see for the ultra-minimalist system is like stripping the guts
out of PDA functionality and limit it to very simple predefined
functionality, like email, terminal, 'notepad', etc.
Make it simple, functional, and disposable.

(but as stated above, this isn't my focus any more. Of course, I could
always get re-enthused... :)

-- Jessica Mayo. [Never mind. Just another fanatic]
(Everything with a Grin :)

--
Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to 
Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH)
Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

Archive created with babymail