Re: New Vax - future directions :-)

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost>]

Den 2021-07-07 kl. 02:43, skrev Jason Thorpe:
> > On Jul 6, 2021, at 3:21 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >   I am having serious thoughts about doing a system-level design around this. Probably not Qbus but some sort of useful VAX.
> Sort of half-joking here, but a reasonable first pass might be, ahem, ISA.  The interface is trivial, and cards for it are quite easy to build if you can't fine one that does the job off-the-shelf.
:-)  I actually did a trivial Qbus inside the FPGA so that it became 
possible to reference devices.
Should be possible to adapt the external interface as well, but I won't 
spend time on that in the near future :-)

-- R