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- From: wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Looking for Prototyping board
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- Message-ID: <wuth.1zku@castrov.cuc.ab.ca>
- References: <RVILLARI.92Aug26223931@lynx.cat.syr.EDU><ERICJ.92Aug27174455@lagos.cfsat.Honeywell.COM><l9qsh0INNfph@aludra.usc.edu> <ERICJ.92Aug27184547@lagos.cfsat.Honeywell.COM>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 14:21:05 MDT
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- In article <ERICJ.92Aug27184547@lagos.cfsat.Honeywell.COM> ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen) writes:
- >In article <l9qsh0INNfph@aludra.usc.edu> aliu@aludra.usc.edu (Alex Liu) writes:
- >
- > I wonder, is there a prototyping board that comes with an Autoconfig
- > circuit? I am not too keen with PALs, so I can't make an fully
- > autoconfig board.
-
- >I certainly understand your concerns. Anyway, even if you had a board
- >with the autoconfig (which would really be nice), you still have to
- >burn a PAL so the autoconfig can get the manufacturer's number (or
- >whatever they call that code now), which tells the software what
- >driver to load for the card. If you don't have an assigned #, you can
- >fake one as long as it doesn't conflict with anything else in your
- >machine.
-
- Alternatively, the manufacturer's number can be burned in ROM, assuming
- the PAL is programmed not to respond at that address, and the ROM is.
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