Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!spencer From: spencer@eris.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability Message-ID: <3125@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 21:49:32 EST Article-I.D.: jade.3125 Posted: Fri Apr 10 21:49:32 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 03:36:35 EST Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 51 In article <1303@sfsup.UUCP> perry@sfsup.UUCP writes: >In article <44@esunix.UUCP>, blgardne@esunix.UUCP writes: >> Perry, why not extend the Amiga side of the bus by two more slots? >> Simply putting Amiga slots in line with the two PC slots on the far left >> of the machine would give those of us that don't have much use for the >> IBM stuff two more slots, without hurting those that need IBM slots. > >That's a good idea, except that several VERY popular IBM PC board makers >assume that there is room beneath the ``normal'' bottom of a PC board. They >use this room to fit more logic than they otherwise would have been able >to fit. > >Perry Ok, but the slots are not put right up against each other, there is space between the slots for all the componants that are sitting on them (like speakers on some modems). So take advantage of that. Place the slots as follows: /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\/\/\/\ [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] <-- Amiga Slots [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] <-- PC Slots [] [] [] [] \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/\/\/\/ <-- Card Holder Thingies By "thingies" I mean those metal cutouts that you slide the card down through and they hold the card up when they are plugged into the slots. I also like the idea of a Dumb Bridge Board. Then people could VAR all these PC products just by writting a driver for the product that would talk through some Standard Dumb Bridge Board (SDBB). Now, how are we going to settle on a stardard for the SDBB. Lets get somebody really prominant in the making of the Amiga to design it. I've got it ------->>> COMMODORE. If they can't figure it out no one can. Then everyone can be compatible. Or we could have different manufacturers make their own version (like the 68020 boards, do we access the CSA 68020 and the :vapor: CBM board the same way? or was that a bad example?) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-