Date   : Wed, 13 Jan 1993 08:52:49 GMT
From   : David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@...>
Subject: Re:Real time clock, and BBC as a graphics terminal

There was a real time clock circuit published
in Micro User a LONG time ago - say around 8 years?
Also there is the alternative - there used to be a firm
who embedded RTC's into 6264 RAM sockets.

As for using a BBC as a graphics terminal off an Archimedes
, it probably isn't too bad - except for 2 hickups:-

1) If you try looking at the output from the WIMP , there
is nothing in the VDU stream about sprites, fonts and the Draw
module.

2) It would be difficult to run a seperate task - i.e. a seperate
wimp say down the serial port. It wouldn't be TOO difficult
to run simple programs in a task window and force the result
down the serial port.


Dave