Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!chinet!saj
From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mark Williams C
Summary: Why NOT a 'Mega bus' add-on?
Message-ID: <8722@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 19 Jun 89 02:36:29 GMT
References: <24094@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <431fba10.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> <1557@atari.UUCP>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill.
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In article <1557@atari.UUCP>, kens@atari.UUCP (Kenneth Soohoo) writes:
[A lot of other stuff that was more to the point of the original discussion]
> Oh, and regarding the expansion bus which the
> '881 sits on in a Mega, it'd be _really_ hard to make the equivalent slot
> for a 520/1040 style machine, sorry.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Soohoo			{ames,imagen,portal}!atari!kens
> Atari Engineering
> "So Atari doesn't necessarily agree with me, so what!"

I'd like to invite some of the hardware hackers out there to enlighten me on
this point.  (Even Atari people are invited)  Earlier comments had led me to 
believe that you basically needed to buffer all the data and control pins on
the 68000, sort them out, and you had a Mega bus.  This wouldn't be out of
the question as a hobbyist project, and I kinda hoped it would eventually be
something my friendly local service shop could install.  What's the catch?
                                  Steve J.