[Coco] [color computer] Just imagining...

[Mike Pepe]

jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> Mike 
> 
> That setup will run no faster than one 6309, unless you rewrite the OS to 
> handle multiprocessors. 
> 
> Nice idea of using multiple processors. Currently there is no OS to support 
> multiple 6x09 processors that I know of.  If one did exist then  splitting taks 
> up between them would be nice. 
> 
> Then I could put three 6809 cores into one 1 million gate FPGA and  have a 
> real nice system running at about 20 MHz to 30 MHz. 
> 
> james
> 

Understood, but I was thinking of one CPU to handle the OS, and then 
driver-level stuff to offload to the others. One CPU could handle all 
the graphics, one could be configured as a DMA or handle I/O. I've done 
some preliminary feasability studies on the idea, and with some sub-50ns 
SRAM or SDRAM it just might work...

-Mike