With all the different microcontroller platforms out there, it's sometimes annoying because there's a solution that does exactly what you want but it's targeting some weird architecture that isn't what you use, or has suddenly become hard to find.
I think it's about time we organize all our open source microcontroller-based firmware around a simple, widely available, and powerful architecture, for consistency and interoperability.
@foone DM&P makes chips like the Vortex86 family which are 486XX/Pentium clones in the form of SoCs. They can be found in a handful of embedded devices like a few commercial kitchen bump bars, for example, where the user must be attached to a monitor
@foone Sadly the pcengines' APU series is no longer being built. I still got a dozen in stock for projects which I picked up from Pascal within the week of the announcement that they cease business... I fell you.
@foone This seems to have been IBM’s approach to their 4694 Point of Sale hardware. My employer’s tills came with Cyrix 486s for years after Intel had discontinued them.
@foone@xinmyname You young whippersnappers with your fancy newfangled +5V logic! We used -15V logic with discrete transistors in our PDP-8, and we LIKED IT!
@foone better yet, fork history: compile dos for similarly old risc chip (a lineage that will become arm64) and incrementally live a past life that could have been if Intel 8086 was irrelevant to begin with. bonus points for setting the mtime on the produced bins to be period accurate