3 Jun
2007
3 Jun
'07
11:50 p.m.
On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Yes, that's why I quoted "authentic". There's nothing (IMO) about
the presence or absence of a 7805 that makes an S-100 board any more
or less authentic...that's the point I was trying to get across.
Also true. I'd bet, however, that the number of S-100 products is
twice that of Multibus and STD bus combined, even when taking into
account stuff like Multibus-based Cisco routers and related stuff. I
wonder why that is...is it just a matter of having been developed
sooner?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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There's nothing "authentic" or even remotely elegant about 78xx
regulators in my opinion. They're a current
product, have been for
decades, and probably will be for another two decades.
"Authentic"--yes. They were on almost all original S-100 boards. Which was my point. There are lots of great
regulators now--
particularly the buck/boost models, but they wouldn't be "authentic"
to the S-100 era.
Very true.
"Better" is subjective...Better for what application? If you're
designing a small system for, say, industrial automation, do you
really want the expense and extreme complexity of something like PCI
or VME?
At the time of the S-100 bus, there was already a better bus--
Multibus. It outlived S-100 by a very long time.
If you want simple, try STD bus. But then, even ISA/PC-104 will do
just fine for S-100 speeds.