Ethan Dicks skrev:
>--- Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net> wrote:
>> Well, I never heard of Zorro, and I wouldn't know Turbochannel if I saw
>> it. I suspect PCI doesn't use jumpers because most cards are, "Plug and
>> Play". Besides, PCI wasn't around when Microchannel was king of the
>> corporate world.
>Zorro is the Amiga bus - there are two card sizes/form factors, Zorro
>ZorroII. I have seen a "sit-on-the-top" Zorro expander for the Amiga 1000,
>but almost anything people are likely to see are ZorroII cards. They
>require a ROM or a PAL simulating a ROM to provide a few nybbles of info
>about the card - the vendor and type code, what kind of I/O or memory
>space it needs, etc. That's the Commodore "AUTOCONFIG" spec which predates
>Plug-n-Play by quite a bit.
Has the A500/A1000 expansion even been called Zorro?
>Turbochannel is the bus I've seen most often with DEC RISC workstations,
>although I think they were not the only vendor to use it. The MIPS boxes
>and the early Alpha boxes were Turbochannel. Mostly, it was used for
>frame buffers, but I think there were one or two non-graphic Turbochannel
>cards.
I know that there have been at least TC VME expansion chassis, an FDDI
adaptor, SCSI and Ethernet.
Somehow, we've all been forgetting Nubus as well. That's plug and play enough
for me. =)
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Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 16:15:43 BST