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- From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: WHAT'S GOING ON ?
- Message-ID: <69151@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 23:31:09 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- John Henders writes:
-
-
- >Bob, play fair. The 3u has many cards available for it, in highly
- >specialised fields, like instrumentation, data aquisition, etc, etc.
-
- Indeed.. I totally agree that *VME* is a standard world-wide..
-
- HOWEVER.. the Atari implementation of that standard IS NOT
- fully compatible with the industry acknowledged standard.
-
- It's about as close to VME as "ASCI" was to the SCSI standard.
-
- For anyone with the standard Atari short-memories, Allan Pratt
- *acknowledged* that the Atari "VME" was not fully implemented,
- saying something like "maybe next time".
-
- There may be *hundreds* of 3U VME cards in the world.. how
- many of those are of ANY interest to an Atari computer user?
-
- (Actually, 3U is rarely used in the "real world".. the double
- height 6U card is the most widely available.)
-
- My message went on to ask if anyone out there has found any
- 3U cards that they've actually found useful..
-
- In what way was my message "unfair"..?
-
- I'd really like to know if anyone in the "real world" has
- *EVER* found anything to plug into their (Atari)VME slot
- that did anything useful for them..
-
- (A bit of background.. I use, and know about those "VME"
- cards for instrumentation and industrial control.. NONE of
- the ones I'm familiar with would even FIT into an Atari
- "VME" slot, much less be useful to the "average" Atari
- owner).
-
- This sounds a lot like the time I asked if ANYONE actually
- had an "ATW"..
-
- BobR
-