My plan about making a computer out of an 8086 has gone down the toilet. No, it isn't the lack of data (I'll link it at the end of the post, it's pretty good) or lack of money, it's the fact that I can't get the most crucial component: the Intel 8086. Seems that you can't get them here in Serbia, unless you salvage them from somewhere, and that is an even worse problem. So, I'm kind of "rerouting" the project to use an ATMEGA16-16PU.
Yes, I know, it's RISC, but it seems much more fun to use. In the end, it will have the same stuff I wanted to implement in the Intel 8086. And the datasheet is amazing (both aesthetically and technically). And the price... the price is something about 4 Euros, when converted from Dinars to Euros.
Thinking of which, how about I make a homebrew ATMEGA16-16PU dev board? With LEDs and other bells and whistles and then build my own operating system for it. I should probably add a few expansion ports for it eg. extra RAM (it's possible; I don't need a gig of RAM, 512kB seems enough).
Can't wait to begin working on this.
8086 links:
http://www.parl.clemson.edu/~wjones/371/gowdy/documents/materials/8086Overview_OLD.pdf
http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=4&t=3
http://howardhuang.us/teaching/cs232/06-Intel-8086-architecture.pdf
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8086/index.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9755070/Microprocessor-8086
http://repository.binus.ac.id/content/H0182/H018279364.pdf
http://www.penguin.cz/~literakl/intel/intel.html
Yes, I know, it's RISC, but it seems much more fun to use. In the end, it will have the same stuff I wanted to implement in the Intel 8086. And the datasheet is amazing (both aesthetically and technically). And the price... the price is something about 4 Euros, when converted from Dinars to Euros.
Thinking of which, how about I make a homebrew ATMEGA16-16PU dev board? With LEDs and other bells and whistles and then build my own operating system for it. I should probably add a few expansion ports for it eg. extra RAM (it's possible; I don't need a gig of RAM, 512kB seems enough).
Can't wait to begin working on this.
8086 links:
http://www.parl.clemson.edu/~wjones/371/gowdy/documents/materials/8086Overview_OLD.pdf
http://www.old-computers.com/history/detail.asp?n=4&t=3
http://howardhuang.us/teaching/cs232/06-Intel-8086-architecture.pdf
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/8086/index.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9755070/Microprocessor-8086
http://repository.binus.ac.id/content/H0182/H018279364.pdf
http://www.penguin.cz/~literakl/intel/intel.html
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