Call for final Elf99 design input

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Nov 24 20:55:16 1998

At 02:47 PM 11/24/98 -0500, ethan wrote:

> I am cranking along with the capture of the Elf99 design (on OrCAD
> for DOS, a 10-year-old program, no less). I wanted to throw out what
> I have descided on and ask for suggestions on what is not set in
> stone.

All the basic stuff sounds fine to me.

> Options under consideration:
>
> o Sockets for two 1822/2101 256x4 SRAMs, the same style used by
> the original Elf.

I'd like that.

PIO and UART would be extremely useful, probably more so than the
prototyping area -- at least, to me.

> o A pre-programmed 27256 with a "library" of simple programs

That's a good idea.

> Do we still have any interested parties?

Yes :-)

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Tue Nov 24 1998 - 20:55:16 GMT

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