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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: PCMCIA card slot
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.002053.9893@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:20:53 GMT
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- In article <36788@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
- (George Robbins) writes:
-
- >The things the PCMCIA slot cannot do is serve as a bus master or as complete
- >extension of the processor bus. It supports two basic modes of operation,
- >one is similar to a basic ROM/SRAM/FLASH interface and can be used for memory
- >or things that look like memory, the other is similar to the 808X I/O bus,
- >with a 64K address space and byte or word wide I/O data...
-
- [..]
-
- >You might ask "where are all these cards"? At the moment anything fancier
- >than a SRAM card seems to be moving from vapor to limited availability.
- >At first everyone was talking about what could be done, and there was lots
- >of handwaving, but now there seem to be real devices moving into the
- >marketplace.
-
- Thanks, this was quite informative. The CPU slot will presumably be more
- capable of sustaining an integrated multipurpose card then I take it?
- Given the expansion slot's 150 pin/knockout configuration, would it
- be conceivable to create an accelerator/DSP module on a single card?
-
- Looks like the A1200 offers a remarkably open architecture for an
- entry-level machine. Congratulations.
-
-