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[Dave McGuire]

On June 18, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> To satisfy 2), we would need to build custom CPUs.  Doing so is
> expensive, and implementing the CPUs as FPGAs is supposed to be
> relatively easy.

  Well...if you say "easy" to mean "easier than starting from sand in
your backyard", sure.  FPGAs are complicated beasties.  I'm just
getting into them myself, and I'm finding out just how much there is
to it.  They're incredibly powerful.

  Speaking of which...there are some very large Xilinx FPGA pulls on
eBay right now.  My budget (and my lacking FPGA experience) doesn't
currently support blowing $100 on a desoldered chip, but the point is
the bigger ones are available.

  Ben Franchuk, I think, would be the guy to talk to about this.  Is
he on this list?  He's done a lot of CPU implementations in FPGAs, and
seems to be rather good at it.

          -Dave

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