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DateTue, 8 Sep 1998 00:28:03 -0400 (EDT)
FromGregory Maxwell <>
SubjectRe: Cobalt Micro (was Re: Build your own Motherboards)
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >>    It's still much more complicated than things you need for a simple ISA
> >> card -- a microcontroller instead of few TTL chips (or single GAL).> >> >On the contrary, you can do i2c with no additional hardware on the PC
> >end, and with just i2c aware logic devices the other end if you wish.> > Micros are scarcely expensive anyway.  You can get an 8051-compatible single 
> chip device for the price of a pint of beer.  If you're lucky you get IIC in 
> hardware as well, otherwise you have to bang your own bits.  Just add power, a 
> crystal and a bit of RC to kick it into life and away you go.  Atmel do quite 
> a neat range of them with up to 20KB or so of flash on the chip.
> 

Anyone know where I can find x86 based micros with such neat features
(builtin ram, flash, i2c, etc.)? I only know assembly on x86 and I dont
think I would want to learn yet another asm just for a toy. :)


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