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- From: clausb@hpbbrd.bbn.hp.com (Claus Brod)
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:25:27 GMT
- Subject: Re: The Great Falcon Debate
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- Juxtaposer (baffoni@phakt.usc.edu) wrote:
- > If the only thing skimped on is the 16 datalines from the CPU to the
- > "standard" memory, wouldn't it be possible to simply make an adapter from the
- > 68882 socket (which to my knowledge _must_ have all data lines to the CPU)
-
- That's not quite true. The 6888x can be configured to work with 16-bit buses
- by hard-wiring certain signals (A0 and /SIZE), and then only one half
- of the 32 data lines will need to be connected. I don't know if they
- used such a solution in the Falcon, however.
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