15 Sep
2012
15 Sep
'12
11:28 a.m.
On 09/15/2012 02:17 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
Ok...work with me for a minute. So little is used to
interface this sparse set of chips to a pc card bus. But the Trident chip must have been
designed to interface w/ISA or PCI systems. Therefore doesn't appear that this chip
"set" is largely bus agnostic? Here's a picture of a PCI card (I would
imagine an early one):
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/content/article/232-trident-t…
Can't seem to find a (free) data sheet though.
The Trident 9000 series (or at least their basic cores) wer available
for both ISA and PCI buses, as well as VLB. The chips are bus-specific
but don't require much glue. Remember the ISA bus is little more than
the CPU bus of the 8088; interfacing stuff to ISA cards borders on trivial.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA