I have an Altair 8800 with an 8088 processor card. The Altair came with an
8080 in 75, however later on CompuPro offered an 8085/8088 dual processor card.
This port would be a project for the future when I have more free time to
focus on "Shock Value" projects. ;) Wouldn't it be neat? :)
The CPU card has an on board latch to support 16MB using 16 1MB pages. I'm
not sure if the current kernel would support page swamping, however 1MB
should be enough to play around with.
I'm currently finishing off other more vintage parts of my Altair Kit
project at http://www.altairkit.com. One of them is an open source
"SuperAltair" card that will offer 1MB SRAM, Ethernet, ADM3 emulator, 512k
flash, power on reset, power on jump, and IDE interface.
With only the SuperAltair card and the 8088 processor card it seems a full
blown 8088-8MHz linux computer would be possible.
Any thoughts about this? I don't imagine a port would be too hard at
all. Just reprogram it to use a 6850 UART for the terminal, use different
I/O addresses for the IDE, and read bootstrap the kernel from ROM.
Grant
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