[rescue] Sick Dreamcast hacker

[Dave McGuire]

On June 18, Scott Newell wrote:
> >Well, I probably should use an HP sometime.  I've only used TIs and
> >Casios, and my comments are based on what I wish for instead.
> 
> Look at it this way--having used just TI and Casio crap, you've got no preconcieved
> notion of what a _real_ calc is all about.  You're working from a clean sheet
> of paper, so you just might hit on something fresh and interesting.

  Yeah...what he said. :)

> One question--why FPGA?  A small ARM or MIPS based embedded CPU would seem to
> be a better fit, but then again, I'm a LISP idiot.

  The Dallas DS80C390 is a fast 8051-core microcontroller with a fat
address space and a nice, easily-accessible 32-bit FPU tacked onto the
side.  It might make an ideal processor for something like this.
Development tools are easily (and freely) available, and it's cheap.

          -Dave

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