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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IEE-488 hardware (was Re: Studebakers)
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Date: 18 Jun 88 20:16:14 GMT
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Marco Papa 'Doc writes:
>The EGA, ATT Targa and 99% of the third party graphics boards heve BIOS ROMS
>in them that must be executed at boot up (mostly for initialization [...]
>I believe that some of the boards that do HAVE BIOS ROMs in them could still
>be used if this "dumb-bridge-board" was not completely dumb, but was instead 

Well, I would think that the Transformer (or *some* kind of 8086 simulator)
would work just fine for executing this initialization code.

Unless it turns out to be highly timing-oriented code, a definite possibility.
	Doug
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