X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9c5db9e6be40caff X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-23 18:18:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!amsnews01.chello.com!Flipper.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: OT: Spamfighting (was: All YOUR Romantic Needs - Relationship101.com 9857) Organization: Total Disorganisation Message-ID: References: <16gr8tgalfh8057ciisd8uakbji47jar43@4ax.com> <2g3u8tgim9e14esk4a7nh9mesg9o6d3oas@4ax.com> <60u09t8aabjgmcqgi4fmimgsadebq2tp0j@4ax.com> <6uhf1pktqr.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> <6uofvuwmkv.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 47 Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 02:17:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.93.74.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.nl X-Trace: Flipper 982981032 213.93.74.225 (Sat, 24 Feb 2001 03:17:12 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 03:17:12 MET Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4586 On 22 Feb 2001 20:21:20 +0100, Neil Franklin provoked the following text: >> >Cool. An FPGA C64 clone. URL? >> > >> > >> Oh no! No Amiga clones! LOL!!! >> Next thing we know is she's gonna make a single-chip ZX Spectrum! >Sounds also interesting. AAAAAARRGGGHHH!!! You heretic! :-) >> >And as FPGA code is code just like C code, there is already talk of >> >open source hardware designs. >> Like the TransMeta CPU? >Not at all. Last thing i heard is that the Transmeta is open source... >> >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 :-))) >I expect it to be unreadable unless one has either PDP-10 or FPGA >knowlege. And I suspect one needs both :-). And i have neither! :-) >> >That it is. These are interesting times we live in. >> But the best times were the early 80's! >For PDP-10s that was already the time of dying. 1970s were the strong >days. I am aiming for the KI-10 model that dominated 1969-1975. Bad music, bad hair, bad times over all. And worst of all: no C64! -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Draai je V3.03 al van de SETI@home client? http://home.hetnet.nl/~setiathomegroep/index.html voor tips, antwoorden, discussies. links, downloads en meer. 841wu/1.29yrs "There are three possibilities: Pioneer's solar panel has turned away from the sun; there's a large meteor blocking transmission; or someone loaded Star Trek 3.2 into our video processor."