This is how a box full of printed circuit boards looks like. That’s 30 boards total – memory card and 5 CPU cards, each in 5 copies nicely sealed in plastic. They have been sitting in my drawer since last Summer. In the meantime I have undergone a little surgery, moved to a new house, ...
I have finished schematics and board layouts for BYTEC/16 rev. 2.0, including the addition of a new MMU board. BYTEC/16 occupies now of 8 boards (previously 7) with MMU being the second from the bottom of the stack. Boards #0 through #4 have been modified and need to be sent to a fab house, while ...
BYTEC is undergoing a hardware revision and will soon receive a set of new features. Recently, while fiddling with monitor/OS and thinking what it would take to implement memory management in Minix, I realized that BYTEC’s memory system is way too simplistic and would lead to serious limitations. So, BYTEC/16 rev 2.0 is on its ...
