I finally decided to take a look at the November 16 issue of
Electronic Design (sometimes it takes me several months to get around
to reading Bob Pease's rants--the current one is about sand, near as
I can figure).
At any rate, on page 50, there's an article title "March of the
Multibus MCUs". Says I to myself, "They've resurrected Intel
Multibus for microcontrollers? Now THAT's interesting!"
Turns out to be no such thing--"Multibus" here applies to "multiple
bus" devices.
Sigh, I guess I'm never going to find a use for those 86-conductor
edge connectors...
Cheers,
Chuck