Subject: PX/PXG and Neon project (beating the dead horse again)
To: NetBSD Mailing List <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Tribo <talon16m@hotmail.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 04/15/2000 01:49:57
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    In some late afternoon boredom I decided to go through the search
engines and see what I could dig up on PixelStamp and the i860. Forget Intel
for i860, there site doesn't even mention it anywhere. Other than the fact
that it was a RISC CPU anyway. I did come across this small tidbit on the
Neon project which I'm guessing was based on both PixelStamp and PixelVision
technology. Has anyone checked into this Neon project for docs / source
code? If nobody's checked, I'll try and put asside Unreal Tournament for a
few hours and see if I can dig up anything. I've attached the little bit of
info that I found to this message in the unlikely event that this is new to
anyone.


    Chris


-- 
    
    "I use to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure..."


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