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From: rorden@kolob.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some thoughts and questions about the Ranger
Message-ID: <155@kolob.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 02:08:11 EST
Article-I.D.: kolob.155
Posted: Wed Mar 11 02:08:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 09:46:05 EST
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in article <1515@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) says:
> 
> Right, no bridge card, not PC slot action.  UNLESS, you plug in one of
> those PC or AT on-a-card things.  Of course that's basically what the
> bridge card is, but it also contains a dual-ported memory to allow the
> two systems to communicate.
> 

What about an alternative bridge card that just passes through the PC
bus?  You would probably only need the I/O space on the PC side to be
mapped into the Amiga side's address space.  Then you could get to all
those cheap PC-bus cards to drop into your Amiga.  Sure, you still have
to write drivers, etc., and figure out how to map the PC interrupts
to the Amiga.  They could be concentrated into one interrupt and
distinguished by reading a register on the bridge.  Has Commodore already
thought of this one?
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