RE: [ql-users] Happy new year!!

2002-01-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
I thought the Irish voted against the Euro ? Have fun anyway - I'm glad we're not in it !! Remember the crash when Stormin' Norman Lamont was Chancellor - all because one guy sold a shed load of Sterling, imagine the consequences on 12 countries if the same thing happened to the Euro, I suspect

[ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Peter Graf
Dave wrote: They do. Unfortunately, it's something of a poor relation. They're made on .5 or .65u processes with aluminium interconnects - generally very old hat. Not quite. The 68LC060RC75 uses a 0.35um process. Still I'd love to see it in 0.15um :-) Finally, with open hardware, and/or doing

Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The problem with the Motorola 68000 series is that they aren't making them anymore. They do. Unfortunately, it's something of a poor relation. They're made on .5 or .65u processes with aluminium interconnects - generally very old

Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A 68060@66MHz Q60 will give you about 300 times the processing power of a QL... not that bad, hue ? Not bad at all... :o) I've been playing with StrongARMs. When Sinclair went away I followed the Acorn route. This

Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Malcolm Cadman wrote: I use RISC OS, as well as QL and PC ... so you are in good company :-) Risc PC 700/SA@287MHz, plus a LART (www.lart.tudelft.nl) I am using an 'older' generation, an A3000, with upgraded

Re: [ql-users] Happy new year!!

2002-01-02 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi All, Just to wish you all a happy new year - hope the hangovers are receiving the nesscessary treatment!! Happy new year, Darren. The Euro is in full swing over here; organised Chaos this morning, as everyone comes to terms with it.

Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:16:42PM +0100, Peter Graf wrote: The reason why we don't emphasize the slots are the current lack of QL software drivers for anything but IDE, FLP, SER, PAR. The only thing I can see missing from that list that I consider important is ethernet. We have

Re: [ql-users] Re: Welcome to ql-users

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:22:34AM -0500, ZN wrote: Actually, the biggest problem with the 68k family is that Mot. does not want to sell the licence to anyone else, so that even FPGA cores that implement the same instruction set are, strictly speaking, illegal. Besides, there are compatible