From wolff@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl Tue Jun 22 17:57:22 1993
Return-Path: <wolff@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl>
Received: from gossip.pyramid.com by dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (4.1/1.34JP)
          id AA03721; Tue, 22 Jun 93 17:57:18 +0200
Received: from sword.eng.pyramid.com 
	by gossip.pyramid.com (5.61/OSx5.1a Pyramid-Internet-Gateway)
	id AA26857; Tue, 22 Jun 93 09:00:04 -0700
Received: from goss.pyramid.com
	by sword.eng.pyramid.com (5.61/Pyramid_Internal_Configuration)
	id AA04840; Tue, 22 Jun 93 08:57:01 -0700
Received: from zen.et.tudelft.nl 
	by gossip.pyramid.com (5.61/OSx5.1a Pyramid-Internet-Gateway)
	id AA26827; Tue, 22 Jun 93 08:59:50 -0700
Received: by zen.et.tudelft.nl (4.1/1.34JP)
          id AA04463; Tue, 22 Jun 93 17:55:21 +0200
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 17:55:21 +0200
From: wolff@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Message-Id: <9306221555.AA04463@zen.et.tudelft.nl>
To: riscy@pyramid.com
Subject: Re: Bootrom and other useless stuff.
Status: RO
X-Status: 


Hi again.

I think I may have made a mistake. It seems that this group is talking about
a new motherboard. I thought we were talking about an accellerator card
like thing. This may make the "bootrom" less "useless".

Take my previous mail with a grain of salt...... Sorry about the trouble....

					Roger.

P.S. Introductions:

   I'm Roger Wolff, I graduated 1.5 years ago, I am currently involved in
   getting a real time application running on a x86 add-on card.. 
   (image processing). The card has one or two Intel 960CA processors.
   These run at 33 Mhz, and two instructions per cycle on optimized code.
   (66 MIPS). However I advise using them for a workstation like environment:
   No FPU, No MMU.



 
From andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de Wed Jun 23 09:30:51 1993
Return-Path: <andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de>
Received: from zen.et.tudelft.nl by dutecai.et.tudelft.nl (4.1/1.34JP)
          id AA06181; Wed, 23 Jun 93 09:30:48 +0200
Received: from mail.Germany.EU.net by zen.et.tudelft.nl (4.1/1.34JP)
          id AA05471; Wed, 23 Jun 93 09:30:43 +0200
Received: by mail.Germany.EU.net(EUnetD-2.2.6.c) via EUnet
	id IB28385; Wed, 23 Jun 1993 09:29:04 +0200
Received: from resi 
	by wegy.waldorf-gmbh.de with SMTP (5.61/GEN-1.0.7)
	via EUnet for unido
	id AA09244; Wed, 23 Jun 93 09:29:43 +0200
From: Andreas Busse <andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 09:28:06 +0200
Message-Id: <9306230728.AA05987@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de>
Received: by resi.waldorf-gmbh.de (5.61/GEN-1.0.7)
	via EUnet for wegy.waldorf-gmbh.de
	id AA05987; Wed, 23 Jun 93 09:28:06 +0200
To: riscy@pyramid.com, wolff@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl
Subject: Re: Bootrom and other useless stuff.
Cc: andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de
Status: RO
X-Status: 

Hello !

> I think I may have made a mistake. It seems that this group is talking about
> a new motherboard. I thought we were talking about an accellerator card
> like thing. This may make the "bootrom" less "useless".

Yes, it looks like that we are talking about an accellerator card.
The x86 motherboards acts as a "big cpu-controlled power supply" :-)
Nevertheless, there should be a boot prom. I just have finished
a design where slave cpus load their code from a shared ram.
I will *never* do this again !

Andy

P.S.: I might have to introduce myself too...
Please excuse my rather bad English. I'm a german, working
for Waldorf Electronics. We build high-end synthesizers and
other music stuff.
My job is hardware design and low-level programming,
mostly assembler code for 68K. I have experience with Mips-CPU's
too. We are using mips-machines for development, and I wrote
an R3000-Assembler for a 68k-based development system.



-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Waldorf Electronics GmbH, R&D Department
c/o Andreas Busse
Neustrasse 9-12
D-5481 Waldorf
Phone:  +49 (0)2636-80294
Fax:    +49 (0)2636-80188
e-mail: andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 
