11 Feb
2007
11 Feb
'07
5:56 p.m.
On 11 Feb 2007 at 11:04, Jules Richardson wrote:
Hmm, in the PC world Trident did an ISA one (8900?),
and I'm pretty sure
Paradise did too. Possibly Oak's offering was also 8 bit.
Yes and yes--and don't forget the Video 7 VGA Wonder--with two
connectors on the bracket (9 and 15 pin). There were also a couple
of EGA adapters that could handle some of the VGA modes (Everex comes
to mind), but not the pallettes.
Oh, regarding the SCSI question, most 8 bitters
didn't bother with a complete
SCSI chip; it can be done with only ten or so LS logic ICs anyway, providing
blistering performance isn't needed (and lets face it, no performance is going
to be blistering if there's an 8-bit CPU handling all the I/O, dedicated SCSI
chip or not :)
There we differ-most of my inventory of 8 bit SCSI cards have an LSI
IC as the heart. Only one or two (e.g. the Iomega Bernoilli adapter)
use SSI.
Cheers,
Chuck