27 Jun
1999
27 Jun
'99
1:59 p.m.
In message <199906271535.AA28999(a)world.std.com>om>, Allison J Parent writes:
<The book also includes a few x to S-100 translator
designs.
KIM to s100 would be useful.
The book includes the schematics and a brief technical description
of the KIMSI, a commercial KIM to S-100 product. It's covered in
Chapter 15, "6502/6800 to S-100 Conversion."
<VAX BI - hmm, that nomenclature doesn't look
right, but you may
< remember this move by DEC to use a non-open bus design
BI is open but, was designed for high speed and multiple processesors.
The bus requires a chipset to communucate over it and while it was supposed
ot be widely available it was never widely adopted.
It was open? I could swear I remember a really big stink in
the DEC press when the BI was introduced. Of course, this
wouldn't be the first time bit-rot affected my historical
claims.
Brian