Hello Frode, > From: Frode Tennebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 12:24:35 +0100 (MET) > > My idea is to use exactly the same card for the SAM. You only need > to have a similar bus-structure as the PC to control it. The > same with all the other PC-ad-ons.
Well, it would be nice but I think it's impossible without a much more powerful processor (perhaps the new Z380 at 20Mhz or something like that) because the ISA bus is 16 bit and clocked at 8Mhz... How do you get to work that with a Z80B, 8bit, 6Mhz? >> > that the PC is shitty (?) :), it has some advantages in that >> > there is no other platform that has such a high degree of >> > support), keeping the basic design of the SAM, but using the >> > much more advanced, mass-produced ad-ons for the PC. That is, >> > a SAM with PCI-bus ;) >> ^^^^^^^ >> ;-))) well the ISA bus would be more than enough!! >> By the way the idea is not bad but not very easy to realise, >> although there is already a QL on an ISA-card called QXL and >> I have read about an Atari ST as an ISA-card ... By the way in the last message I misunderstood you. I thought you where talking about a SAM on an ISA-Card to put into a PC (similar to the QXL card) which would use the I/O ports, disk drives an HDs of the PC and not an ISA bus for the SAM which you meant instead. Ciao, Arne +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Arne Di Russo Internet..: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (up to 14. Jan. 1995) | | Rome, Italy Fidonet...: 2:335/311.55 and 2:335/21.55 | | Voice.....: ++39/6/56338158 after 9pm CET | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+
