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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.\" Start of SuRP, the Sux Reference Platform. +.NH +.XN The Sux Reference Platform +.LP +The Sux Reference Platform, or SuRP, is the reference architecture for +Sux, and what most other architectures should be based on. +.LP +SuRP will have two boot firmwares, one called SuBAsm, or +the Sux Bootstrapped Assembler, and a bootstrapped version +of the Tiny C Compiler, called SuBTinyCC. +.LP +SuRP will have an MMU chip specifically designed for Sux, called the +MinMMU, a PCI Express controller called MinPCIE, and an RS-232 controller +called the Min232. +.LP +The reasoning for using an assembler, and a C compiler as boot firmware, +was because we wanted to make sure that no one could run prorpietary +code on any Sux based system, and to allow for a possible Maximite like +computer, called the SuRPimite, which will use a microcontroller variant +of Sux, called MicroSux. +.LP +MicroSux will come with SuBAsm, and SuBTinyCC built-in to the chip, but +will still be on a flash chip, so that you can update it, but cannot be +directly accessed by the user, and as such, will have a second flash for +user programs. |