From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gregg C Levine" Subject: Re: BCC, ELKS 24 Bit addressing mode Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:11:37 -0500 Message-ID: <002a01c65059$173b1fe0$6401a8c0@who7> References: <4422801D.2000006@sentvion.com> <4422EF6B.20804@gmail.com> <4422E782.1030302@sentvion.com> <20060323210950.G88845@agora.rdrop.com> <442380EA.5050807@nc.rr.com> <20060323212600.T88845@agora.rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dan Olson , Linux-8086 Hello! As for your problems, sir, I also am interested. Please keep us advised. As it happens, Dan Olson, I do have a need for some. Not too many. What do we need to do to arrange this transaction? --- Gregg C Levine obiwanthejediknight atsign att dot net "The Force will be with you. Always." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Olson" To: "Linux-8086" Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:28 AM Subject: Re: BCC, ELKS 24 Bit addressing mode > True, I undesrstand, I just thought that the extra banking logic needed > and the software overhead might negate that added integration, but I'm not > sure what your goal is in the project. I've got some 186 CPUs sitting > around if you have any need for a couple. > > Dan > > > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jody wrote: > > > 186 CPUs have various non-CPU functionality integrated into the chip itself, > > which is one reason it's popular in some embedded designs. > > > > Dan Olson wrote: > >>>> Basically you're working with a 286 that's been lobotmized down to a 186 > >>>> with the addressing features in place? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> yes, but I need to address 16 Mbytes of RAM so I need to use 24 bit > >>> addressing mode. > >> > >> > >> I hate to ask, but why bother with a 186 in the first place? As I > >> understand it, the only real difference (other than some hardware > >> integration) between the two is that the 286 has a 24 bit address > >> space....which you'd need if you're going to use 16M of RAM anyway. > >> > >> Dan > >> - > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >> > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html