🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑2d ago

Does the world need a new single-board computer design with an MC68060 CPU?
I'm thinking about 4GB of DDR3 DRAM, one serial port, one M.2 slot for an NVMe SSD, and one Ethernet port (probably 1Gbps). Not intended to be software-compatible with any existing board or system.

Same question, but various 32-bit RISC processors? MC88110? Am29000/Am29050 (pin compatible)? Intel 80960KA/KB/MC/XA? TI TMS34020?
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@brouhaha I’m still seriously thinking about building a FPGA ‘040 Classic Mac board that takes “modern” DDR3 RAM, USB keyboard, NVMe SSD, etc. and hopefully can be clocked well above what a 68k could ever achieve.
Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑1d ago
@jpm
That would be awesome!
Some of the older RISC CPUs I'm interested in could actually be more efficiently implemented in the FPGA, but I didn't want to attempt to design superscalar cores like the 68060 or 88110. AFAICT, in an FPGA a scalar core but at higher frequency is likely to be better.
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@brouhaha (this is kinda the plan for Nightcore at the moment; a MIPS R4000 but with a modern ISA)
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@lofty
I was kinda considering MIPS R4000/4400, R5000, or R10000/12000.
Many aeons ago I wrote some boot code for 4200 and 4300 parts, and some 3000-based microcontrollers.
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