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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Zorro
Message-ID: <882@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 14:17:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.882
Posted: Mon Oct 13 14:17:15 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Oct-86 07:01:53 EDT
References: <301@pttesac.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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> Keywords: Zorro standard backplane configuration board
> 
> OK, OK, OK.  I'm embarassed as hell to admit it, but I've got to.
> I don't know what a Zorro is (other than a character out of a TV
> show from long ago).
> 
> So will somebody please tell me what is a Zorro?  Or what is the
> Zorro standard?  Also what didn't I read that I should have so that
> I would have known this.
> 
> Marnix                   "Nothing on a cold winter night like
>                           curling up in bed with a warm cup of hot
>                           chocolate and a Rom Kernel Manual."
> -- 
> Marnix A.  van\ Ammers
> Home: (707) 644-9781		Work: (415) 545-8334
> {ihnp4|ptsfa}!pttesac!vanam	CIS: 70027,70

Zorro is the collective name for the Amiga 1000 Expansion hardware
specification, which includes the expected hardware for a 100 pin edge 
expansion slot box, the specification for the auto-configuration 
circuitry expected to be used on every expansion card, and the size of
the expansion card.  A book on this is available from Commodore in
West Chester.


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