[Coco] Any news on the so called CoCo4 or NextCoCo projectthatBjork was heading?

[Frank Pittel]

It's the attempt at a "coco4" by Steve b. that's dead. The dream lives on!! :-)

The other Frank


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:29:28AM -0800, Steve Batson wrote:
> I know many would love to see a CoCo 4 come into existence, but I thought 
> the project was dead. Says it's dead on coco4.com 
> 
> Is there new info or activity on this, or just more discussion? 
> 
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> 
> From: jdaggett at gate.net
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 8:17 AM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Any news on the so called CoCo4 or NextCoCo 
> projectthatBjork was heading? 
> 
> On 21 Oct 2010 at 12:18, Mark Marlette wrote:
> 
> > There could be a point made that a FPGA device is emulated(configurable)
> > hardware..... ???? :)
> 
> I would not call an FPGA emulated hardware. I can see where one might think 
> that. Instead it 
> is actual hardware that is configurable to one's need by software. 
> 
> Within the fabric of the CLBs of FPGAs are LUTs. FFs, MUXs and other logic. 
> What the HDL 
> does is describe how these components are to be wired. A 4 input LUT can be 
> configured to 
> be a 4 input and gate, or gate, or just about any gate you want. Combining 
> several LUTs and 
> you get evenmore complex logic circuitry. 
> 
> FPGAs are indeed logic that is not so different from the 6800 or the 6809 
> or the 6811 
> processors. The software is nothing more than tools to help you wire up the 
> building blocks of 
> the any circuitry you wish. If one wwere to look at the schematic of the 
> 6800 processor you 
> would see gates. Lots of gates. Registers and lots of them. Now they may 
> very well be 
> constructed differently than the fabric of an FPGA, they are still gates 
> and flip flops. Same 
> elelments of an FPGA. 
> 
> just my thoughts
> 
> james
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