[Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC

Kip Koon computerdoc at sc.rr.com
Sat Mar 14 00:06:13 EDT 2015


Hi Mathieu,
Yes, I would definitely think two serial ports would be necessary.  A second dedicated serial port to the Drivewire 4 server is needed to keep the speed over the serial link as high as possible in addition to some software changes as well.

Kip Koon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Mathieu Chouinard
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 2:57 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC
> 
> I like the idea of DW but will this need 2 serial ports?
> one for the console and the other one for DW?
> Mathieu
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Pere <psergm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I love the idea of building a minimal 6-Chip 6309 computer, the only
> > thing I would prefer on it is the USB-TTL because that way we could
> > use Drivewire4, it would not be too difficult, even without HDB-DOS,
> > using Tormod's DWLOAD, so we could have plenty of room to save/load programs.
> > And the server could be any microcontroller board, no PC mandatory.
> >
> > To me, it would be nice to be able to add various (buffered) add-ons
> > to the Keeper-Bus.
> > That way every user could make his little child grow as much as he/she
> > wants ... Luis' WordPak2+, Keyboard-Video, MMU and anything we could devise.
> >
> > The point that is more restrictive here is the fact that the RS-232
> > eats up too many addresses, if only it could be confined to FF4x (for
> > instance), that would be a great improvement to free a lot of space to
> > populate the board with 64K instead of just 32K, making things easier
> > for Nitros-9 and the like.
> >
> > I don't want to slow down the developing, just wanted to tell you all
> > my thoughts about that project... I have already ordered one.
> >
> > cheers
> > pere
> 
> 
> 
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