Somewhat OT: FPGA Develpment Kits

[9000 VAX]

On 11/21/06, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:

> I'm working on that.  My real job just keeps getting in the way.  I've
> gotten it to almost boot rt-11 from a fake rl02.  There's still
> debugging to be done but the basic concept is working.  Basically it's a
> small cpld and a tiny arm cpu.  It can be a bus master, generate
> interupts, dma, whatever.  I'm reading the disk image from CF card but
> it also has a usb function port (and a serial port).


I have a question about this approach. Is CF card good enough to be written
thousands of times, or even more? I am thinking about making a substitute
MFM HD with DSP and CF card. But I worry about the CF's ability to survive
many writes.

vax, 9000

I hope to finish getting rt11 up in the next month or two.  It's been
> hanging off an extender card in an 11/44 (on it's side) for a few months
> now...
>
> -brad
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