[rescue] Bigger Iron at Home (was: SNMP, Baby!)

[Paul Weissmann]

vance at neurotica.com [vance at neurotica.com] wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Paul Weissmann wrote:
> 
> > > > > 50mhz is a heck of a lot faster than early risc designs running a
> > > > > 10mhz.  I certainly wasn't suggesting 100-200mhz.  Not everyone
> > > > > needs to move faster, some of us are just interested in moving
> > > > > better as a hobby.
> > > >
> > > > The earliest commercial RISC I can remember was teh R2000 at 12Mhz,
> > > > anyways I thought you were talking about the Apple's first riscs PPC
> > > > (I believe they were like 60Mhz parts).
> > >
> > > The IBM ROMP is a bit older than the MIPS R2000, and the early ROMPs
> > > run at 5.88MHz.
> >
> > Besides the RT-PC FAQ - is there anywhere some more information on the
> > ROMP CPU itself?
> 
> I know someone who worked on the project at Yorktown.  He's long since
> retired, though, and I don't think he has any documentation lying around,
> but I'll ask.

Would be nice though.

> > The FAQ does talk mostly at the h/w-level only about the different RT
> > and board models, but not the processor design specifically.
> >
> > Are there still any RT-PC AOS(BSD) users?
> 
> I know of at least one.

By any chance - do you know if he made Ethenet boards and AT-disks to
work with it? There were patches floating around, but I was too lazy
to buy such a WD-Ethernet and try it for myself.


        - paul

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