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From: jtravis@dworkin.Amber.COM (Jim, Sysop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AT bus in 2000 and 3000
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Date: 4 May 91 18:30:20 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

> No.  "AT Slot" == "ISA Slot", at least in 90's-speak.  "ISA" means "Industry
> Standard Architecture", since apparently "the industry" has taken over this
> bus since abandoned by IBM (can't say as I blame them, even if they did 
> invent it).  Enhanced ISA, EISA, is an attempt to build a bus that's upward
> compatible with ISA and somewhat modern (multi-mastered, shared-interrupts,
> intelligent configuration, the normal Amiga-bus stuff).
> 
        Hey Dave - why can't CBM sue other people for stealing the look and 
feel of the Amiga software and hardware?  Seems a little crummy that we can 
be preyed upon, you know?  Who knows...properly followed up on, CBM could be 
on to some big $$$ if they could ever prove technical/intellectual theft was 
at work here.  I guess after having gone from an A1000 to a 2000, then a 
2500/30 and now a 3000, I wish CBM could keep a bit more of the edge it has 
seemingly pioneered.
        
        And howzabout that 24-bit graphics driver for Workbench.  Got one 
yet? I'd like to decide on a Hi-res card, but don't know what direction to 
go!
        
> 
> -- 
> Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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>       "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.

 
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