Comment Re:DX or SX? (Score 1) 376
What's really funny is you could buy a 487 coprocessor if you had a 486sx:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80487#80487
I.e. you could plug in the chip you REALLY wanted into a second socket.
Comment This article on the subject is interesting (Score 1) 220
This article from MATLAB News & Notes that came out on the 30th anniversary is pretty interesting - there are some nice details in it about the original system. It was co-authored by Dick Gran, one of the engineers who helped design the real thing. I saw Dick Gran give a talk on this subject and it was really interesting. Full disclosure: I work for the MathWorks.
Submission + - Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA (hetnet.nl)
An anonymous reader writes: Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?
