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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AT bus in 2000 and 3000
Message-ID: <1991May6.114751.5024@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 6 May 91 11:47:51 GMT
References: <21093@cbmvax.commodore.com> <0kqF24w163w@dworkin.Amber.COM>
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In article <0kqF24w163w@dworkin.Amber.COM> jtravis@dworkin.Amber.COM (Jim, Sysop) writes:
>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 
>        

All EISA cards have dedicated cpu's on them, like the ULowell(?) Board
for amiga. There aren't too many others for the amiga. The range for the
PS/2 is rapidly growing with dedicated processores on almost every card
in the computer from Joystick Cards( :-) ) to Ethernet Cards.

IBM didn't steal this, they invented it.

>> 
>> -- 
>> Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>>    {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>>       "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.
>
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matt.