front panel display for a modern PC

[Chuck Guzis]

On 29 Feb 2008 at 20:13, Andrew Lynch wrote:

> While working on this rather simple project, it kept occurring to me that
> the PIC is practicaly begging to be made into a general purpose low chip
> count computer.  Add some address and data bus latches, static memory, an
> EPROM, maybe a peripheral or two.  The parallel and serial ports are
> practically built in already.  Yes, the PIC doesn't have your traditional
> data and address bus but with a small 40 pin PIC protoboard like this, it
> doesn't seem like it'd be all that hard to interface one to a small SRAM
> like a 6264.

Andrew and I have discussed this one.  My idea would be to take a PIC 
or AVR and implement something like a P-code machine in the firmware. 
Fetch the instruction and data stream from the 6264.  That way, 
there's no problem with the Harvard architecture uC running all 
instructions out of PROM.

You could also construct a FORTH machine the same way, I suspect.

Cheers,
Chuck