4 Jun
2007
4 Jun
'07
7:28 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:28 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Yes I've heard that, and it's no coincidence that the three or four
STD-bus cards that I've seen in my life happened to be motor
controllers. :-)
I really like the form factor of those cards...I wish they were easier
to come by; I'd love to build up a little STD-bus "hack machine" around
a Z80 or 6809.
It would probably be easiest to build a "hack machine" around the 6502.
There are a significant number of 6502-based CPU boards for talking to
said motor controllers over the STD-bus. I've Z80-based ones too, but
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?
I don't have any experience from which to draw when trying to come up
with a number for the amount of S-100 product out there, but I can say
without hesitation that there is a metric buttload of STD-bus stuff
out there, but only in specific arenas. You can get an STD-bus board
(or boardset) to do pretty much anything you can think of in
industrial control/manufacturing robotics. It's a very popular bus in
that arena. from what I've seen the 6502 ones are more common.
Peace... Sridhar