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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sidecar vs Bridge
Message-ID: <2294@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 10:01:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  3 10:01:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 11:04:42 EDT
References: <548@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <548@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) writes:
>Anybody know whether the programmer's models for the Sidecar 
>and the Bridge Card are identical? 

As this gets asked a lot, I'll post the answer...except for the sense
of the busy bit on the PC parallel port they do indeed present the
same programming model.  In fact, we use the same software to
drive both the Sidecar and the Bridge board.  (aside from the 
LPT1 program)

As an I/O adapter for an Amiga, the PC may have its finest hour :-)

		andy finkel

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