Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!labrea!rocky!ali From: ali@rocky.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Sidecar vs Bridge Message-ID: <548@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 19:34:16 EDT Article-I.D.: rocky.548 Posted: Wed Sep 2 19:34:16 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 04:28:21 EDT Reply-To: ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 23 ----- Here's an interesting query, from a friend... If you wish to send him email, try sending to r.racer@othello.stanford.edu or, if that fails, to me (and I'll forward). Or you can post... Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu ----- From: ARTHUR WALKER Subject: Sidecar and Bridge Anybody know whether the programmer's models for the Sidecar and the Bridge Card are identical? Do they look the same to the 8088? to the 68000? In other words, could I use a sidecar to write lots of connectivity software for the 2000/bridge configuration and have object code compatibility? I expect that what has come from commodore doesn't stretch the capabilities for transfer through the video ram. We should already be hearing about using the 8088 as a server for all sorts of resources not now accessible to amigites for lack of hardware. If this is what I want to do, should I buy a sidecar tomorrow or should I wait, wait, wait.........for a 2000? I think that buying a clone and emulating the dual port ram via serial port and interrupts in software might be too slow and obscure the power of the Bridge. Art