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On 20 Feb 2001 21:02:52 +0100, Neil Franklin <neil@franklin.ch.remove> provoked
the following text:

>> >One friend of mine is working on a whole new C64 board - he wants to try
>> >to pack the entire board, plus a few enhancements, into a single chip (in
>> >VHDL I think).
>
>Cool. An FPGA C64 clone. URL?
>
><dreaming>
>Then an Amiga clone, then at 100s of MHz, with all mods. Who cares
>then any more what Commodores owner du jour does or doesn't?
></dreaming>

Oh no! No Amiga clones! LOL!!!
Next thing we know is she's gonna make a single-chip ZX Spectrum!

>> Very High Density Layers?
>
>VHDL = VHSIC Hardware Description Language
>VHSIC = Very High Speed Integrated Circuit

8< Snip wonderful explanation.

>And as FPGA code is code just like C code, there is already talk of
>open source hardware designs.

Like the TransMeta CPU?

>P.S. I have just this January started an project to FPGA clone the
>1970s PDP-10 mainframe: http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/PDP-10/

Looks impressive, but i don't understand any of it :-)))

>> Anyway, it sounds promising...
>
>That it is. These are interesting times we live in.

But the best times were the early 80's!
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