Date   : Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:24:32 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Reversing the Tube ULA (destructively)

On 26/10/2010 05:53, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> I believe his clone, doesn't have as many bytes in it's FIFOs,

Yes, I remember, though this could just be a limitation of the 
programmable logic he used - that adding a larger FIFO would not have 
provided suitable gains for the work involved?


> and I seem to remember him saying that it didn't do DMA I think,

The Tube does DMA!?


I suppose the question is, do we want an EXACT replica, or "something 
that works"?


Best wishes,

Rick.

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