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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bus Master Boards
Keywords: bus master A2000 boards
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Date: 4 Oct 89 13:03:58 GMT
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In article <125730@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> admiral%m-5@Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht SUN Microsystems Mt. View Ca.) writes:
>
>Does anyone out there know of any boards for the A2000 that's a 
>bus master?
>
>I'm doing some research on the amiga 2000 bus.
>
>Please email me with the responses.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Mick
>sun.com!admiral


Which brings up a point, and I would appreciate it if someone really
knowledgeable about the Amiga bus would answer.  I keep seeing
articles about IBM's MC bus standard, and as I read them I keep
trying to find what it is about MC that is so special.  I recently
saw an article which promoted an 80 MB/s bus speed on 32-bit MC
busses, which I didn't credit (it was some kind of marketing
announcement, and I don't think they had the hardware to demonstrate
these speeds).

Can someone please explain what it is conceptually about MC bus
architecture that is so unique, and in what ways this is
superior to the Amiga bus (besides sheer speed).  It looked to
me like they were getting excited because it allowed auto-config.

--Steve
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