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From: nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Advanced Systems
Message-ID: <359@eskimo.celestial.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 04:03:07 GMT
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In article <1991Apr21.030656.1881@engin.umich.edu>, jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro) writes:
> Many Apollo machines have ISA slots.  (Both 68030 machines, and
> RISC based CPUs.  Naturally it isn't the only type of bus in the
> machines, but shows ISA does'nt require an iNTEL type of chip.)

     If memory serves, the Apollos had a 286 I/O processor, and that's why
they had an ISA bus, the Motorolla chip had it's own bus and didn't talk
directly to the periphery on the ISA bus.