> Or there was something beyond simulation. [...]

Thanks.

"When I knew Hombre better, in 1993-1994, it was two chips, and using the PCI bus and a PC-industry GPIO for all of the basic I/O stuff. "

According to this statement, there may have been a Hombre prototype on a PCI card. I wonder if such card still exists or if there are pictures of such card at least.


Edit:

According to Dr. Hepler:

Supposed date of completion as of September 1993:
"The time frame for this chip set is CY 2H 1994."
(Hombre_part_3.pdf, page 3)

"Current status" in October 1993:
"Block diagrams of all chips have been generated. Interfaces to memory and between chips have been defined. Schematics of the CPU chip and Video chip have been started and various blocks have been simulated."
(Hombre_part_1.pdf, page 19)

Supposed date of completion as of April 1994:
"Late 1994 "First Silicon" Availability for 1995 Production"
(Hombre_Presentation_part_1.pdf, page 3)

"Status" in April 1994:
"- Schematics for many major blocks have been captured
- M language, synthesizable, behavioral models have been written for much of the functionality of the chip set.
- Some simulation has been started, much remains to be done."
(Hombre_Presentation_part_2.pdf, page 30)

So I think it can be safely concluded that there was never any Hombre prototype in hardware.

[ Edited by Andreas_Wolf 21.07.2017 - 08:26 ]