group buy for homebrew CPUs?

[David Griffith]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Don wrote:

> Jay West wrote:
> > If we were gonna do a homebrew CPU, I'd sure like to see it done with
> > something akin to AMD 2901's. Why not build a retro cpu out of a retro
> > technology?
>
> Makes sense.  But, do you try to design some "classic"
> processor or just some "classic 2901 design"?

It came to me tonight that maybe a TTL-based 8086 would be fun with all
the busses, registers, and other things were brought out to a front panel.
The Magic-1 runs at 4MHz, so maybe an discrete-built 8086 would be fast
enough.  It would be a fun thing to hack FreeDOS with.


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