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From: brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500
Summary: How about an IBM-ish busdriver?
Keywords: A1500 expansion slots
Message-ID: <4504@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 89 01:04:55 GMT
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Reply-To: brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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One good argument for having an IBM-type bus is the huge
variety of hardware add-ons that are available for this
standard.  I don't imagine that it's not all that tricky to
translate the amiga's 68000 bus signals into those appropriate
for IBM peripheral cards, with suitable compromises (such as
a wait state or two, and not mapping the entire 68000's address
space onto the IBM bus).  Even accepting the restriction that
IBM peripherals with resident ROMed firmware couldn't be supported,
I would imagine that a great many useful pieces of hardware would
remain, and would then be supportable via the appropriate Amiga
software.

If the bus translation electronics aren't too tough, mightn't it
be worthwhile to add them to an A1500's motherboard?  Kind of a 
brainless built-in "FootBridgeBoard".

Out of ignorance: Postings!  (I wish I knew the Latin for this)

Brian Rhodefer