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From: phil@amd70.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: S-100 bus faster than Multibus?
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 02:23:01 EDT
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The Multibus has not and will not be extended to support 32 bit data
or addresses. There will be a new bus, Multibus II, which supports
32 bits. Several companies, including AMD, have come out in support
of it. For further details, you should wait until Multibus II is
released to the public, sometime late this year. (November?)

I too have heard S-100 is faster than Multibus. I don't know the details
of how S-100 operates, but the Multibus has a theoretical limit of
10 megabytes per second and a practical limit of much less. You can sure
buy a lot of boards for the Multibus, though.