Thanks for the replies. I've just now read that article - and like other stuff then, bit too little, too late, too expensive. Interesting they compare it to a CRAY of the time too.
ARM was around the corner too, so lets just quietly walk away from it... Shame they never went down the Transputer route, but I suspect the same might have happened.
I was just trying to get a feel for what happened back then with regard to my own 'retro' thing. I've started with 6502 systems, moved to 65c816, written a nice (to me) little single-user OS for it that supports local s/w development, (well, editing & compiling) now looking to port that OS to something else. For a long time I've been looking at RISC-V but my recent re-introduction to the world of Acorn has made me re-think it in many ways - mostly now as a co-processor (implemented in software as a PiTube cpu) leaving all the hard work of IO, etc. to the old Beeb..
Cheers,
-Gordon
ARM was around the corner too, so lets just quietly walk away from it... Shame they never went down the Transputer route, but I suspect the same might have happened.
I was just trying to get a feel for what happened back then with regard to my own 'retro' thing. I've started with 6502 systems, moved to 65c816, written a nice (to me) little single-user OS for it that supports local s/w development, (well, editing & compiling) now looking to port that OS to something else. For a long time I've been looking at RISC-V but my recent re-introduction to the world of Acorn has made me re-think it in many ways - mostly now as a co-processor (implemented in software as a PiTube cpu) leaving all the hard work of IO, etc. to the old Beeb..
Cheers,
-Gordon
Statistics: Posted by gordonDrogon — Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:19 pm