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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some thoughts and questions about the Ranger
Message-ID: <1636@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 00:07:53 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1636
Posted: Tue Apr  7 00:07:53 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Apr-87 00:46:02 EST
References: <1515@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <155@kolob.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <155@kolob.UUCP> rorden@kolob.UUCP (Randy Rorden) writes:
>in article <1515@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) says:
>> Right, no bridge card, not PC slot action.
>
>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?

Yep, I'm hoping sombody will do this one for us.  Personally, I have no
interest in MS(yeech)DOS, but would love to be able to directly access
the PC bus cards without unwanted software/80xxx intercession.  I don't
think Commodore will do such a card, because of too much product confusion
between this and the "real" bridge cards.  It sounds like an excellent
third-party project, expecially if they work up drivers for the n-most
popular expansion cards - serial, disk, I/O, etc...

--- personal opinions here, folks ----

-- 
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