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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Designing for the FHF (was Re: Proprietary hardware)
Message-ID: <1989Mar30.165044.28196@utzoo.uucp>
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 16:50:44 GMT

In article <7745@pyr.gatech.EDU> byron@pyr.UUCP (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>Has anyone ever interfaced a PC peripheral with a PC bus connector to
>anything other than a 80X86 motherboard? ...

Yes, it's been done by several outfits as a way of getting access to
cheap peripherals.  The PC buses are ugly and slow but not all that
difficult to talk to.

I take second place to nobody in my loathing for 80i86 processors, but
there are a *lot* of cheap peripherals for PC-bus machines.  Forcing
yourself to reinvent the wheel is usually a mistake.
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