Local bus schedule

From: blstuart_at_bellsouth.net <(blstuart_at_bellsouth.net)>
Date: Sun Jun 27 20:59:51 1999

In message <199906271535.AA28999_at_world.std.com>, Allison J Parent writes:
><The book also includes a few x to S-100 translator designs.
>
>KIM to s100 would be useful.

The book includes the schematics and a brief technical description
of the KIMSI, a commercial KIM to S-100 product. It's covered in
Chapter 15, "6502/6800 to S-100 Conversion."

><VAX BI - hmm, that nomenclature doesn't look right, but you may
>< remember this move by DEC to use a non-open bus design
>
>BI is open but, was designed for high speed and multiple processesors.
>The bus requires a chipset to communucate over it and while it was supposed
>ot be widely available it was never widely adopted.

It was open? I could swear I remember a really big stink in
the DEC press when the BI was introduced. Of course, this
wouldn't be the first time bit-rot affected my historical
claims.

Brian
Received on Sun Jun 27 1999 - 20:59:51 BST