Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip...
Message-ID: <1991May3.132640.9616@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <5146.28201476@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991May2.201628.9534@nevada.edu> <1991May3.042214.20311@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 May 1991 13:26:40 GMT

In article <1991May3.042214.20311@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> anarch@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (The Anarch) writes:

[more on slots, bus, support for the VME bus]

>     Hee hee...there are probably more cards available for VME than for
>NuBus and EISA combined.  Well, that's an exaggeration--I have no idea
>of the actual numbers--but there are definitely a *lot* of VME cards out
>there; it's anything but a proprietary design. 

The idea of using a VME bus in a micro computer is somewhat odd. Even HP
in its new "snakes"(50 and 70 mip workstations approximately) has chosen
to go with a micro bus, namely the EISA. Furthermore, IBM's RS/6000 uses
the micro channel.

There are plenty of inexpensive cards for virtually any peripheral now for
both the MCA and the ISA/EISA. The notion of Atari using a VME bus in its
TT strikes me as being very strange indeed.

While we are on Atari, let me add that they do produce a nice product.So 
does Commodore with the Amiga. I suspect that the reason many of us 
find the AppleII() to our taste is the very high quality of programmers
available for that platform, both in and outside Apple. This is less
clear for the other two, although they certainly do have a following in
Germany.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca
[my opinions,etc...]