IBM bus
Bruce D. Becker
bdb at becker.UUCP
Wed Jun 5 04:28:11 AEST 1991
In article <1257 at cbmger.UUCP> peterk at cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
|In article <14289 at ur-cc.UUCP> jea at prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
|>Are there actual IBM bus slots on the A3000?
|
|Yes, there are.
|
|> Is it possible
|>to use IBM compatible cards with a unix machine?
|
|I fear not. You see, the slots are normally NOT connected to the Amiga
|processor, only the power lines are connected. To bring them into life,
|you have to throw in a Commodore Bridgeboard, which carries a whole
|PC (or AT) on a card and also connects to the PC/AT slots and thus
|activates their lines.
But then one needs software to communicate
with the bridgeboard - in Amiga Unix, at
least so far, NO SUCH SOFTWARE EXISTS.
GRRRRR, SHRIEK, FROTH, etc.
--
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