Besta-88 - Revision history

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‎External Links

ForOldHack at 01:54, 18 September 2019

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ForOldHack at 06:27, 12 September 2019

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ForOldHack: /* Besta - Russian sun-3 clone */

2019-09-11T05:36:04Z

‎Besta - Russian sun-3 clone

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Besta-88 is a Soviet graphics workstation, that was a clone of a Sun-3.

There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU VME boards,
and a single picture of a booting ( or non-booting as the case may be ) system.

[[https://pics.meshok.net/pics/99199594.jpg The case:]]

[[http://lh6.ggpht.com/_yEwEOQ_tdfs/SaUD7soiO2I/AAAAAAAAABs/KeGEPCIBOPA/s800/IMG_5758.JPG An early CPU VME board, with a 68010R10 ( 10Mhz 68010 ): ]]

[[http://lh5.ggpht.com/_yEwEOQ_tdfs/SaUEX_-o9kI/AAAAAAAAACA/NiwHRJxgfb0/s800/IMG_5760.JPG A presumably working CPU VME board, with a MC68030R33 ( 33Mhz 68030 )]]

[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bestix.jpg/1280px-Bestix.jpg A boot screen, which lists 'Stollmann' as the company who ported ATT SYS Vr3 to the Besta: ]]

[[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-74230-9_2 Stollmann is still listed in Berlin: They authored a paper on Data flow archicture: ]]

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 The MAME developers, in dumping the [[ROM]]s for the Force-3 workstations noticed that the Besta-88 ROMs were nearly indentical, making the [[emulation]] of a Besta-88 trivial once a Force-3 workstation can be emulated.
 There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU [[VME]] boards, and a single picture of a [[booting]] (or non-booting as the case may be) system.
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 ==External Links==
-* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-74230-9_2 Stollmann is still listed in Berlin: They authored a paper on Data flow archicture]
+* [http://ftp.stu.neva.ru/besta/sysv-misc/docs-html-koi8.tar.gz The documentation - Russian]
 [[Category: Workstations]]

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	* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-74230-9_2 Stollmann is still listed in Berlin: They authored a paper on Data flow archicture]		* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-74230-9_2 Stollmann is still listed in Berlin: They authored a paper on Data flow archicture]

		+	* [http://ftp.stu.neva.ru/besta/sysv-misc/docs-html-koi8.tar.gz The documentation - Russian]
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	[[Category: Workstations]]		[[Category: Workstations]]

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 The Force-2 is a clone of the [[Sun-2]], and while the Force-3 was intended as a clone of the Sun-3 the engineering was difficult to reverse the custom [[Memory Management]] Unit of the Sun-2. The Besta-88 VME earliest CPU boards were like the Force-2 with a 68010R10 processor, and like Force, Besta skipped over the Sun-3's use of a [[MC68020]] and custom MMU, and refocused on cloning the [[MC68030]] based members of the Sun-3 family, since the MMU was built into the CPU, it could be cloned much more easily.
 The MAME developers, in dumping the [[ROM]]s for the Force-3 workstations noticed that the Besta-88 ROMs were nearly indentical, making the [[emulation]] of a Besta-88 trivial once a Force-3 workstation can be emulated.
 There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU [[VME]] boards, and a single picture of a [[booting]] (or non-booting as the case may be) system.

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-The '''Besta-88''' is a Soviet graphics [[workstation]] which was a clone of a Force-3 (German) which itself is a clone of [[Sun-3]]. The firmware of a Besta-88 is essentially the same, and the circuit board layout is almost exactly the same. Reverse engineering at its finest.
+The '''Besta-88''' is a Soviet graphics [[workstation]] which was a clone of a Force-3 (German) which itself is a clone of [[Sun-3]]. The [[firmware]] of a Besta-88 is essentially the same, and the [[printed circuit board]] layout is almost exactly the same. Reverse engineering at its finest.
-The Force-2 is a clone of the Sun-2, and while the Force-3 was intended as a clone of the Sun-3 the engineering was difficult to reverse the custom MMU of the Sun-2. The Besta-88 VME earliest CPU boards were like the Force-2 with a 68010R10 processor, and like Force, Besta skipped over the Sun-3's use of a 68020 and custom Memory Management Unit, and refocused on cloning the MC68030 based members of the Sun-3 family, since the MMU was built into the CPU, it could be cloned much more easily.
+The Force-2 is a clone of the [[Sun-2]], and while the Force-3 was intended as a clone of the Sun-3 the engineering was difficult to reverse the custom [[Memory Management]] Unit of the Sun-2. The Besta-88 VME earliest CPU boards were like the Force-2 with a 68010R10 processor, and like Force, Besta skipped over the Sun-3's use of a [[MC68020]] and custom MMU, and refocused on cloning the [[MC68030]] based members of the Sun-3 family, since the MMU was built into the CPU, it could be cloned much more easily.
-The MAME developers, in dumping the ROMs for the Force-3 workstations noticed that the Besta-88 roms were nearly indetical, making the emulation of a Besta-88 trivial once a Force-3 workstation can be emulated.
+The MAME developers, in dumping the [[ROM]]s for the Force-3 workstations noticed that the Besta-88 ROMs were nearly indentical, making the [[emulation]] of a Besta-88 trivial once a Force-3 workstation can be emulated.
 There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU [[VME]] boards, and a single picture of a [[booting]] (or non-booting as the case may be) system.

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−	The '''Besta-88''' is a Soviet graphics [[workstation]] which was a clone of a [[Sun-3]].	+	The '''Besta-88''' is a Soviet graphics [[workstation]] which was a clone of a Force-3 (German) which itself is a clone of [[Sun-3]]. The firmware of a Besta-88 is essentially the same, and the circuit board layout is almost exactly the same. Reverse engineering at its finest.
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		+	The Force-2 is a clone of the Sun-2, and while the Force-3 was intended as a clone of the Sun-3 the engineering was difficult to reverse the custom MMU of the Sun-2. The Besta-88 VME earliest CPU boards were like the Force-2 with a 68010R10 processor, and like Force, Besta skipped over the Sun-3's use of a 68020 and custom Memory Management Unit, and refocused on cloning the MC68030 based members of the Sun-3 family, since the MMU was built into the CPU, it could be cloned much more easily.
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		+	The MAME developers, in dumping the ROMs for the Force-3 workstations noticed that the Besta-88 roms were nearly indetical, making the emulation of a Besta-88 trivial once a Force-3 workstation can be emulated.

	There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU [[VME]] boards, and a single picture of a [[booting]] (or non-booting as the case may be) system.		There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU [[VME]] boards, and a single picture of a [[booting]] (or non-booting as the case may be) system.

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-Besta-88 is a Soviet graphics workstation, that was a clone of a Sun-3.
+The '''Besta-88''' is a Soviet graphics [[workstation]] which was a clone of a [[Sun-3]].
-There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU VME boards,
+There are pictures of the case, various pictures of CPU [[VME]] boards, and a single picture of a [[booting]] (or non-booting as the case may be) system.
-[[https://pics.meshok.net/pics/99199594.jpg The case:]]
+==Images==
-[[http://lh6.ggpht.com/_yEwEOQ_tdfs/SaUD7soiO2I/AAAAAAAAABs/KeGEPCIBOPA/s800/IMG_5758.JPG An early CPU VME board, with a 68010R10 ( 10Mhz 68010 ): ]]
+* [https://pics.meshok.net/pics/99199594.jpg The case]
-[[http://lh5.ggpht.com/_yEwEOQ_tdfs/SaUEX_-o9kI/AAAAAAAAACA/NiwHRJxgfb0/s800/IMG_5760.JPG A presumably working CPU VME board, with a MC68030R33 ( 33Mhz 68030 )]]
+==External Links==
-[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bestix.jpg/1280px-Bestix.jpg A boot screen, which lists 'Stollmann' as the company who ported ATT SYS Vr3 to the Besta: ]]
+* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-74230-9_2 Stollmann is still listed in Berlin: They authored a paper on Data flow archicture]
-[[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-74230-9_2 Stollmann is still listed in Berlin: They authored a paper on Data flow archicture: ]]
+[[Category: Workstations]]