Subject: Re: Bootrom and other useless stuff.

From: [email-masked] (Rogier Wolff)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 17:55:21 +0200

Hi again.

I think I may have made a mistake. It seems that this group is talking about
a new motherboard. I thought we were talking about an accellerator card
like thing. This may make the "bootrom" less "useless".

Take my previous mail with a grain of salt...... Sorry about the trouble....

					Roger.

P.S. Introductions:

   I'm Roger Wolff, I graduated 1.5 years ago, I am currently involved in
   getting a real time application running on a x86 add-on card.. 
   (image processing). The card has one or two Intel 960CA processors.
   These run at 33 Mhz, and two instructions per cycle on optimized code.
   (66 MIPS). However I advise using them for a workstation like environment:
   No FPU, No MMU.

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From: Andreas Busse <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 09:28:06 +0200

Hello !

> like thing. This may make the "bootrom" less "useless".

Yes, it looks like that we are talking about an accellerator card.
The x86 motherboards acts as a "big cpu-controlled power supply" :-)
Nevertheless, there should be a boot prom. I just have finished
a design where slave cpus load their code from a shared ram.
I will *never* do this again !

Andy

P.S.: I might have to introduce myself too...
Please excuse my rather bad English. I'm a german, working
for Waldorf Electronics. We build high-end synthesizers and
other music stuff.
My job is hardware design and low-level programming,
mostly assembler code for 68K. I have experience with Mips-CPU's
too. We are using mips-machines for development, and I wrote
an R3000-Assembler for a 68k-based development system.

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