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1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 20:08:09 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   I need to stop looking at attractive SBCs and focus on the poorly documented BCM2837 and its VideoCore taskmaster

   1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 20:08:56 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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      I ain't even gotten on this horse yet, it's way too early to change midstream. I am barely damp.

   2. Ed S (eds@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 05:38:01 EST Ed S

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      Can I recommend a quick study of the PiTubeDirect project? It's a bare-metal ARM project which uses the Raspberry Pi's VideoCore CPU to bitbang responses to a 2MHz 6502 bus, so it can emulate a number of second processor architectures from a Zero plugged discreetly into a BBC micro.

      Whereby we get a fast 6502, Z80, x86, 6809 and superfast ARM attachments for our 1980's computing device. Oh, and a 32-bit NS32k too, to run Fortran benchmarks.

      @djsundog

      1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 09:02:12 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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         @EdS this looks awesome! Gah, I wish it was the weekend now!

         1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 19:11:29 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

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            @EdS so I adore this project the more I look at it, thanks for the pointer - this is almost the architecture I have been trying to visualize, and probably a close enough model for me to trip over the rest of the details