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Posted on 16-Dec-2001 01:32 GMT by Ian Stedman | 147 comments View flat View list |
I am currently toying with the idea of designing a Zorro card for the Amiga. What would the interest be in a card with the following:
10/100 mbit Ethernet, 2 X High speed serial ports, 1 X ECP/EPP parallel port & IrDa?
There is some preliminary information on my website
I am also looking at the possibility of adding a Zorro to ISA bridge and making the card work in Zorro 2 and Zorro 3 Amigas.
Are there any other features you would like?
If you are interested, please email me. If there is enough interest I will look at making some prototypes and if feasible, a short production run.
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Posted by Mike Veroukis on 17-Dec-2001 01:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 35 (Steve): >It, pci/agp is not an alternative . There aren't any Agp slots except on a few
>cards.
Huh??? All high-end graphics cards come in an AGP configuration (including the one I'm using right now). Just about any modern motherboard has an AGP slot or an integrated AGP graphics card. So what the hell are you talking about? AGP is pretty startard these days.
>So right there these weak idea is still behind the times in the pc world.
No, the AMIGA is behind the times as it does not support AGP or any other technology similar to it.
>That world is stil behind the tech times.
If they are behind, then who is leading?
>The pci/agp solution didnt get to where it was today becasue of it being >better. It got there becasue it was set to open source by IBM.
Better then what? Zorro, NuBus? PCI had it's problems but is pretty stable these days. Even Zorro's creater Dave Haynie has stated several times that he believes that PCI is better. Yet somehow they are "still behind". Somehow I'm getting the feeling that using logic and common sense to form an argument with you is pointless.
And another thing, although I might be wrong about this, PCI was NOT developed by IBM but by Intel.
>AMIGA and Atari didnt open source thiers.
You mean open-spec. There's no "source" for an expansion bus.
>If Amiga and everyone else had , AMIGA would still be way ahead.
Well, Zorro3 was ahead until PCI came about... Mac people would probably argue that, but who listens to Mac people anyway? ;-)
>The people that started off with Amiga and went to pc becasue they said there
>was software for the pc when there wasnt ie 95 ,98.
Are you for real? They left the Amiga for the PC under a false assumption that the PC market had more software? I guess the joke was on all those retailers that were filling their shelves with PC software... Little did they know the boxes were empty right? Is that how it worked?!?
Well that was fun!
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