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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Zorro III (Re: Wishlist for A3000)
Message-ID: <1079@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 18:39:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 18:39:22 1987
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Keywords: Commodore A3000 Do it RIGHT!

How about adding an extra 8 bits of address and 16 of data on a secondary
bus in a similar fashion to the PC/AT bus? If you do it right it will
be possible to use 16-bit cards in the new bus. Much simpler than
going to NuBus.

Of course NuBus has some very nice features. As has VMEbus. There might
be form-factor problems, though (though not with Zorro I, oddly enough).

A side question: since NuBus slots are at fixed addresses, is it technically
a bus?
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