22 Sep
2001
22 Sep
'01
8:05 a.m.
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Mark wrote:
- What differences are there between the Option Board
and Deluxe Option
Board? Looking at a picture in an eBay auction listing, the Option Board
card appears to use quite a few discrete (TTL?) ICs, whereas the Deluxe
card (or at least, the cards I have), uses an ASIC made by Toshiba. Does
the ASIC simply replicate the discrete ICs, or contain extra functionality?
The deluxe can handle a wider range of data transfer rates. That is
needed for the Mac formats.
IIRC, later models of the "regular" were also ASIC.
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