[Coco] The X9

[Chuck Youse]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:04 +1000, Mark McDougall wrote:
> Chuck Youse wrote:

> IMHO, I'd be adding peripherals inside the FPGA as far as possible. Maximum 
> flexibility and minimum cost. Note that ethernet MAC, IDE controller and 
> multiple UART cores, as you mention in your "two other things" thread, are 
> all easily implemented on-chip (I've had plenty experience will all 3) with 
> a few simple external support chips such as PHY and serial line drivers. And 
> extended video modes are reasonably trivial - the problem is software 
> support and squeezing enough grunt out of the 6809 to do anything useful 
> with a few MB of pixels...

Boooring.

c.