IBM System/32 available
Eric Smith
spacewar at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 14:26:02 CST 2015
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
> * The expansion bus in the IBM PC was the same bus as the System/23. The
> connector was rotated 180* so that some of the less expensive
> cards from the PC couldn't be used in the System/23. The other
> reason for this was since the IBM PC was done on a "shoe string"
> budget, they could take the System/23 cards and only had to do some
> minimal re-layout of the board.
Did the System/23 also use edge-triggered interrupts, rather than level?
Do you have any idea why it was thought a good idea to use
edge-triggered interrupts?
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