Re: NS32K and NetBSD/pc532 Directions

Reference:
> From:		"Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> 
> Date:		Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:28:21 -0400 
> Message-id:	<[email protected]> 

"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> 
> Germain "Labonté" <[email protected]> writes:
> > I've been considering developing an emulator/simulator.  However,
> > I'm having second thoughts here because of
> 
> > i) I don't have any NS32K hardware to provide reality checks
> 
> I'm sure someone could give you access over the net to a pc532 to do
> experiments if you were interested enough.
> 
> > ii) I'm wondering really what might be the eventual value in this
> > exercise beyond nostalgia?
> 
> For many people, nostalgia is a powerful driving force. I doubt there
> is any commercial interest in such a thing.
> 
> > Would an emulator/simulator help with dissemination of the
> > architecture and give rise to a greater interest?
> 
> It would certainly make it much easier for people to revive things
> like the gcc port for the architecture.
> 
> Perry

Sorry, I have a pc532, but havent got netbsd on it currrently.  (it
works, just lack of my time).  I should really instead install DDNS
& host it myself, over DSL, but I certainly wouldnt hold breath for
that.  Also I don't have an ethernet adapter for it, though I'd
like one, & there's s few of those cabletron adapters about.  (&
now I've passed on my last Symmetric 375, I've a bit more time for
PC532, I hope :-) SL-IP isnt a lot of fun, but then over the 128 K
bit/s of my home DSL uplink you might not notice a difference ;-)

For a quicker solution (access to a working PC532), I guess Dave
Rand via [email protected] still has his on line part time.  [email protected]
from memory. Then of course there's [email protected] All cc'd

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