[Coco] Single board Pentium computer... "CoCo4" or Drivewire server material?

[George Ramsower]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve Bjork

>As I said, the CoCo 4 project would bring back a dead CoCo back to life.

Steve

My Coco stuff is not dead... it just to needs to be FASTER!

 Darnit!, I love my coco and B09!!  With a good emulator and an expansion 
slot, I could do a lot more, in a shorter period of time, with the knowledge 
I have of programming. The speed of the expansion port is not an issue now. 
Processing B09 instructions and the computer are. A high speed emulator 
would be really nice.
 I'm starting to snuggle up to the idea of this mono-board computer and the 
ports that are available. This seems to be a viable solution.

George Ramsower wrote:
>  This isn't really a reply to the previous posts on this but, it got me to 
> thinking....
>
> Uh, oh!
>
>   A Coco 4 would need the expansion slot. (period!) A Coco 4 would not 
> have that with the new hardware available today.
>
>   Could a USB port be used to transfer data to and from an adapter?
>
>   These new USB ports are fast...
>   Could a driver in an emulator on a really fast computer(or not) could 
> interpret, pass interrupts and process this incoming data and respond to 
> the calls and data as if it were really a coco on the other end of the 
> wire?
>   This, of course, would require a small amount of hardware. A Coco card 
> slot with a USB port on it. It seems with the modern  chips we have, it 
> would be possible. I have no idea about how much this little board would 
> cost to build and most of all, how much programming it would entail, but 
> I'm just tossing this into the discussion.
>
>   Huh? Is that a good idea or am I a bone head for bringing this up?
>
> (One hour since Happy Hour was over)
>
> George
>
>
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