On (18 Jan 95) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 >> Based on German prices the generic board will probably be quite competative
 >> price-wise despite the use of a GAL and a pair of 'LS646 chips!
 >> Would simplify things quite a bit if the generic interface were used via a
 >> fake z80 40pin dil upgrade socket on the Multi-Rom motherboard, certainly
 >> reduce your designing&development overheads:-)

 > *smiles* take me to your leader... :)

DO you mean you're interested? If so I'll email a list of pins that'll need to
be brought out to the fake-z80 socket, dimensions and register allocations
that we implement(It's slightly different to yours and my original!)

 >> ANSI glitches sorted now?

 > Yep... although I've got to rewrite it all using a 4 table finite state 
 > machine :( And I've got to keep a copy of the text and attributes off 
 > screen as well... but I may put a "fast" copy of the software on the disk 
 > as well, which is optimised to the max for ANSI...

Feel free to Zip up the ascii'ised source and send me a copy and I'll
give you the benifit of my enormouse intelect<GRIN>

 >> It would allow EMSI logons to BBS's and EMSI Fido mail sessions.
 >> That's one thing that's seriously lacking in z80 scripted terminals:-(

 > Waaaaaaayyyyy ahead of you -- I've got the IEMSI specs from Fidonet, and 
 > I'm plugging them in as we speak...

Ok, but hooking it into scripts will allow the flexibility to make it future
proof (sort of;)

 > There's nothing wrong with Native mode y'know -- it does the job!

Exactly what job is that? Oh yes provides a launchpad to write your own
operting system yourself to support your own standard applications;-)

Regards
Johnathan.

... Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
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