> > 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?
As I said, put it in a PC-box with a ISA bus (or something) and the only thing you had to worry about is to get a fast enough SAM - the Z380 should do. :) > > >> > 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. Should do the same trick! -- * Frode Tennebo * It's better to live life in * * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * wealth and die poor, than live * * phone: +47 712 57716 * life in poverty and die rich. * * snail: Parkv. 31, 6400 Molde, NORWAY * -Frode Tennebo*
