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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AT bus in 2000 and 3000
Message-ID: <1991May8.032757.12335@cs.cornell.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 03:27:57 GMT
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In article <1991May6.114751.5024@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes:
[...]
>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.

Eh?  EISA is the industry standard invented by a collaboration of equipment
manufacturers, which includes practically everyone *but* IBM.  PS/2's use the
competing standard developed by IBM, Microchannel.  Expansion bus cards with
dedicated CPU's aren't new, either.

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