🚀 go-pugleaf

I definitely want one.  My only real concern is price.  If the board
and ICs approach the price of the pc532 itself I might think twice.  I
don't want to quibble a whole lot, but I also am not willing to write
a blank check by committing to something with an outrageous pricetag.

My other concern is software.  Sounds like Dave has the low-level in
hand, but what about an OS?  What's going on with Mach, BSD SS, ports
of 386BSD and/or BSD/386, etc.?  When might something that can at
least limp be available, and what sorts of distribution is being
considered?  I do hope the mistakes of Minix will be avoided -- there
are probably many people like myself who were driven away because it
was such a pain to bring up a decent Minix system.  That's not saying
I don't expect some work, but it would be much more productive for me
and everyone else to spend limited resources working on *new* stuff
and not re-inventing the wheel by having to port all sorts of code
that others have ported but nobody was willing to collect in a decent
manner.

BTW, what will happen with regard to the daughter board for the serial
ports?  One of the things I'm interested in working on is networking
and communications, and having a dedicated processor to drive those
serial ports is a very appealing resource ...

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