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- From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Adding a 2nd PIA
- Message-ID: <65860@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 13:11:40 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <65783@cup.portal.com> <15064@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- Well... The reason I'd do it the way I'm talking about is 1) Chuck had
- to use either 74HCT or 74F, I believe, in order to get the circuit fast
- enough to respond to the delays with the added circuits. I'm not that good
- at trouble shooting so it has to work right from the 1st time it powers up.
- As long as the !CS lines are used, the number of chips on the buss shouldn't
- really matter much: They'd be in the high impedance state. I figure if I
- don't want to add delays through gates I have to keep the 2nd '138 at the
- same level as the 1st. 2) If anybody really want's to add aditional decoding
- to the page, it doesn't bother me <g>. IMHO: Perhaps add a single buffer
- element between the MMU & the MANY '138s. I'm not sure what the fan out is
- from the MMU to the '138s is, but a single fast buffer would let it handle
- multiple '138s. Like I said though, I'm not too worried about it. Really,
- How many things would you add if you could? I'm thinking maybe built in
- RS232, printer port, maybe an Eprom burner, true A/D, two PIAs, disk
- interface. More work then I could do in a year & it'd only use about
- 1/2 the hardware area even if I had them all plugged in at once. Something
- like the added complexity of the circuit if I bump into problems with speed
- is enough to stop me in my tracks! I may take a look at putting them all on
- one page. JDR Microdevices is right down the street from me & I have to go
- there to pick up a 1.84 mHz crystal for the 6551 anyway. That is unless
- someone can tell me RS232 can take a 3% variation in speed so I can use the
- computers clock.
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