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- From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
- Subject: Re: New Product Releases
- Message-ID: <Bz6M38.78L@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <Bz1BBI.14z@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec11.233530.6340@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:04:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.233530.6340@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
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- [deletions]
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- >> I still don't think it's possible, it'd have to be a major hack, and
- >> you probably couldn't go back to ECS afterwords.
-
- After I wrote this I thought about AGA emulation of ECS, but that
- may not be 100%. This is, of course, a butt cover... :)
-
- >About 99% of the software out there NEEDS the ECS chips to
- >function.
-
- Not exactly, if the software used system calls instead of poking registers
- then anything could run on any later revision of the OS.
-
- >If such a board were
- >developed, couldn't it work in a way that is similar to the 030 boards that
- >plug into the 68000 socket of an A500/2000, yet still provide a socket for
- >the 68000 and use that chip as a fall back option?
-
- Maybe, if it could even be produced. To do this would require that
- MANY leads and "stuff" be run all over your mother board, in effect,
- you'd be piggybacking another mother board onto your existing one.
- That wouldn't be such a bother except that you would have conflicting
- addresses that is to say: if a program wants to do WaitBlit() or
- something similar with the custom chips, are you talking about the
- blitter in the Agnus, or Lisa? The only way to do this effectively
- is to be able to shut off half of the system, and that isn't exactly
- system complient, eh? It may be possible with an MMU though, I'd
- really like to know others thoughts on this as I haven't really given
- this much thought.
-
- > -=- Ed
- >
- >* Edward E. Brown II * Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com *
- >* Chemist On A Mission From GOD! * FidoNet: 1:105/135 *
- >*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
- > Annoy the media...Think for yourself!
- >==============================================================
-
-
- --Jason Balicki
- kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
-