Post AiGIBKQP44TuAt1SSW by realMagnesium12@troet.cafe
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(DIR) Post #AiGF7oDM4AOpXoY7oO by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T20:39:07Z
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With all the different microcontroller platforms out there, it's sometimes annoying because there's a solution that does exactly what you want but it's targeting some weird architecture that isn't what you use, or has suddenly become hard to find.I think it's about time we organize all our open source microcontroller-based firmware around a simple, widely available, and powerful architecture, for consistency and interoperability.The Intel 80486.
(DIR) Post #AiGGL1wcQgHNqWacFc by rasteri@mastodon.scot
2024-05-25T20:49:34Z
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@foone itanium or nothing
(DIR) Post #AiGGPqFNLcLj0zenrM by scruss@xoxo.zone
2024-05-25T20:49:52Z
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@foone They tried that. It ended very, very badly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_QuarkThe Quark featured in the Worst Arduino Ever Made™: the Intel Galileo. Naturally, I love these awful things to pieces
(DIR) Post #AiGGdlP89Jvq39rHNY by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T20:55:45Z
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@kevin DX. It's been 35 years, we can splurge a little
(DIR) Post #AiGGnT4j9RJE6CwU9g by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T20:55:54Z
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@Foritus exactly!
(DIR) Post #AiGGuidJholWNVZwuG by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T20:57:10Z
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Microsoft's all open sourcing ms-DOS 4.0, Intel should open source the 80486.They're about the same age.
(DIR) Post #AiGHLSNMG59dm8rcDg by carey@mastodon.nz
2024-05-25T21:01:41Z
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@foone This seems to have been IBM’s approach to their 4694 Point of Sale hardware. My employer’s tills came with Cyrix 486s for years after Intel had discontinued them.
(DIR) Post #AiGHuCHq4Kbo0mqcfQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T21:10:02Z
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I want a raspberry pico that's x86 and runs at 5v, is that so wrong?
(DIR) Post #AiGIBKQP44TuAt1SSW by realMagnesium12@troet.cafe
2024-05-25T21:11:35Z
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@foone The most similar device to this I know would be a Dell WYSE 3040.
(DIR) Post #AiGIIfyrJrOb3Vdtpo by xinmyname@mastodon.social
2024-05-25T21:12:04Z
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@foone 5V? In this economy??
(DIR) Post #AiGIZshjGYgbRMpmls by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T21:14:31Z
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@xinmyname I live in th. Past! We use 5v back here, I don't care how much you youngins love your 3.3v and 1.8v
(DIR) Post #AiGJKww9La2uB61VMu by felsqualle@manitu.social
2024-05-25T21:22:12Z
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@foone Imagine a fully compatible FPGA reimplementation…New hardware for ancient software!
(DIR) Post #AiGK0pSVXaQX9D80Dg by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T21:27:10Z
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@riley and arguably Pentium pro. That's when speculative execution got started
(DIR) Post #AiGKAFZ5qchIikhVZ2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-05-25T21:27:58Z
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@jiub yeah I've got one and some accessories! It's very neat, but I want them to be 20$ so they can be in everything
(DIR) Post #AiGLVcJuXWslKWLs2K by fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk
2024-05-25T21:50:00Z
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@foone Or --- hear me out --- 6502. I'm not sure it's not already been open sourced. (And, BBC Basic...)
(DIR) Post #AiGLicU3F7u9bNILk8 by phel@toot.cafe
2024-05-25T21:53:05Z
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@foone Hmm doable with a mid sized fpga maybe?
(DIR) Post #AiGN45MXARmnCeZuzo by bamfic@autonomous.zone
2024-05-25T22:08:09Z
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@foone They're probably embarrassed of it.
(DIR) Post #AiGN9RifTKl9zRUHaa by corbin@toot.community
2024-05-25T22:08:47Z
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@foone finally, the year of the 486
(DIR) Post #AiGO05LpMrtvxnu892 by mothcompute@vixen.zone
2024-05-25T22:19:31Z
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@foone @xinmyname curse the pentium mmx and its peculiar dual voltage design...
(DIR) Post #AiGORuh4aKrP1E6xFY by SteveSyfuhs@hachyderm.io
2024-05-25T22:23:31Z
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@foone yes, yes it is.
(DIR) Post #AiGPGaB8cSEkA3Kogy by nblr@chaos.social
2024-05-25T22:32:09Z
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@foone Sadly the pcengines' APU series is no longer being built. I still got a dozen in stock for projects which I picked up from Pascal within the week of the announcement that they cease business... I fell you.
(DIR) Post #AiGW3E4UCZCBVknl8S by PJ_Evans@mastodon.social
2024-05-25T23:48:37Z
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@foone @xinmyname Um. I have a CD with software containing some GIF files, but it won't load in Win10. Might with XP or Win98... (It's from 1997.)
(DIR) Post #AiGX3PexDVwLPCVoga by sterophonick@bitbang.social
2024-05-25T23:59:32Z
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@foone DM&P makes chips like the Vortex86 family which are 486XX/Pentium clones in the form of SoCs. They can be found in a handful of embedded devices like a few commercial kitchen bump bars, for example, where the user must be attached to a monitor
(DIR) Post #AiHCuVswteiqBOUsSm by thorsummoner@ibite.lol
2024-05-26T07:49:04Z
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@foone better yet, fork history: compile dos for similarly old risc chip (a lineage that will become arm64) and incrementally live a past life that could have been if Intel 8086 was irrelevant to begin with. bonus points for setting the mtime on the produced bins to be period accurate
(DIR) Post #AiHSlyWucsNBgO8l4C by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-05-26T10:46:22Z
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@foone controlling the micros is hopeless. They have revolted, and the age of micro anarchy will last forever.
(DIR) Post #AiHXu5P3SG9J5T9TYe by brouhaha@mastodon.social
2024-05-26T11:44:11Z
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@foone @xinmyname You young whippersnappers with your fancy newfangled +5V logic! We used -15V logic with discrete transistors in our PDP-8, and we LIKED IT!
(DIR) Post #AiKQmgJsCSzd3m889I by griibor@mas.to
2024-05-27T21:08:34Z
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@foone Didn't intel cpus of that era want 5+ different voltages, some of them negative?I thought that was like zilog's second most appealing feature.
(DIR) Post #AiKmNWLkKQONtJPiT2 by sajattack@chaos.social
2024-05-28T01:10:22Z
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@foone not quite the same but not a bad start either https://opencores.org/projects/ao486