22 Jun
2000
22 Jun
'00
4:36 p.m.
I never had the opportunity to work with a machine that was IEEE-696
compliant. I'm assuming you did (Danger Will Robinson!)... were compliant
boards reliable? Do you know of any attempts to retrofit compliance onto
existing S-100 designs?
-dq
lessee... yes, yes!
I've worked with 696 complient, no that didn't completely help the bus
noise problem. bus termination could be fitted to any bus and it helped.
Compupro and others had backplanes that were terminated and much better
but it's only part of a total solution.
FYI: there is not less than 4 distinct varients of S100 and they are
mostly compatable...sorta. It tended to evolve over time with 696 beinng
mostly after the fact.
Allison