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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: autoconfig (for the Insider)
Message-ID: <3140@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 22:44:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 22:44:40 1987
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Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
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In article <1357@sfsup.UUCP> perry@sfsup.UUCP writes:
>In article <1107@tekred.TEK.COM>, joels@tekred.UUCP writes:
>> In article <1203@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>, page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>> > 
>> > The whole point of autoconfig is that you don't need DIP switches.
>> > ..Bob
>> 
>> No, the whole point of autoconfig is that you don't need addmem. The board
>> must know where it resides and tell dos where that is at boot time. You
>> still need switches to tell the board where it goes. Otherwise it would
>> be set at the factory and unchangeable.
>
>Excuse me  Joel,  but  go  read  the  docs.

	I don't have the docs ... (but I do have the Insider; I'll post my
experience in a moment.)

>The point of Autoconfig is not to
>have jumpers or switches to assign addresses. The insider does NOT autoconfig
>it is simply automatically recognized by sheer luck at the exec checks C00000
>when constructing the memory lists. 

	Sheer luck?  ... could you elaborate?

>Automatically recognized is definately NOT autoconfig.

	But there's another process of "autorecog"?

>Autoconfig is a Zorro Bus Specification term which defines bus map allocation
>logic which allows  a board  and the Amiga to NEGOTIATE a base address of the
>board.

     Are you sure that it doesn't autoconfig?  Or is it that
the  autoconfig has nothing to do with the dip switch?  When
reading the Insider doc I was under the impression that  the
dip  switches  settings  are necessary for 1.1 Kickstart and
Addmem.  Upon closer examination it doesn't specify one  way
or the other.

     One other question:  will I be able to  use  your  2001
expansion box with the Insider?  I hope I can.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this subject.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

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