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| Brandon | Lets build a computer.I mean from stratch, get the chips and everything, and then write the OS. I want to make one, but I'm not sure where to start? I looked at Z80 but there isn't really a lot of recourses that are at my level.
I think a system in a keyboard, fanless, SSD device would be cool. | 2009-05-27 | 2:39 PM |
| SonicBrit | Re:Lets build a computer.ARM is a pretty popular chip and has a linux port as well as gcc support.
You could always go x86 too :P, but I'm guessing you want to try something different. | 2009-05-27 | 8:15 PM |
| ksr | Re:Lets build a computer.A few links, so you understand the size of such a project :P :
http://hanssummers.com/computers/newz80/index.htm
http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/Mk1/Architecture.htm
http://www.vttoth.com/vicproc.htm
You would be better to use something like a Z80 or 6502 rather than try and build the uP out of TTL chips. I did draw up schematics for a TTL OISC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer) processor, but never built it. | 2009-05-28 | 6:07 PM |
| rCX | Re:Lets build a computer.It'll probably be [url=http://www.stevechamberlin.com/cpu/category/bmow1/]messy[/url]...
[img]http://www.stevechamberlin.com/cpu/gallery10.jpg[/img] | 2009-05-28 | 6:13 PM |
| JFK | Re:Lets build a computer.that would be insane to build i think. just goto to pakistan to get your chips made lol. | 2009-05-28 | 6:27 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Lets build a computer.Maybe I'll just stick with software for a while :P | 2009-05-28 | 6:37 PM |
| ksr | Re:Lets build a computer.If you're not too good with electronics you should maybe try using PICs. If you get a couple of larger, faster ones (PIC18Fxxx series) and buy a C compiler you'll have access to VGA, USB, ethernet and PS/2 libraries. | 2009-05-29 | 12:20 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Lets build a computer.But what do I use hardware-wise for all of that? Am I not finding the right PIC board? | 2009-05-29 | 2:06 PM |
| ksr | Re:Lets build a computer.The PIC boards you are looking at will be just for programming - then you take the chip out and use it in your own circuit (the rest of which would be relatively straightforward, just some filtering for the video output, a MAX232 chip for a serial port, etc).
Still probably not a simple task, but I think it'd be the best route for a code-oriented guy :P | 2009-05-29 | 5:10 PM |
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