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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.unix.amiga,amix.talk
Subject: Re: IBM bus
Message-ID: <106726@becker.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 18:28:11 GMT
References: <14289@ur-cc.UUCP> <1257@cbmger.UUCP>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1257@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
|In article <14289@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
|>Are there actual IBM bus slots on the A3000?
|
|Yes, there are.
|
|> Is it possible
|>to use IBM compatible cards with a unix machine?
|
|I fear not. You see, the slots are normally NOT connected to the Amiga
|processor, only the power lines are connected. To bring them into life,
|you have to throw in a Commodore Bridgeboard, which carries a whole
|PC (or AT) on a card and also connects to the PC/AT slots and thus
|activates their lines.


	But then one needs software to communicate
	with the bridgeboard - in Amiga Unix, at
	least so far, NO SUCH SOFTWARE EXISTS.
	GRRRRR, SHRIEK, FROTH, etc.


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