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In article <45yjq8#.mats@netcom.com> mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann) writes:
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>The TT has only a single 3U VME slot, allowing for one half-high card.
>There's a workable ethernet card (Reibl) which has a supported driver,
>which allows running TCP, NFS, etc - I'm doing so now.  It will support
>a 3rd-party video card in the future - I doubt whether I'm at liberty
>to say which one.  However, with only one slot, you have to make a
>choice between ethernet and video adaptor.  ACSI devices aren't

	Hasn't anyone made a bus-expander?  I remember hearing (many moons
ago) that it shouldn't be too hard to design/build an extended bus (ie. 
extra connectors/slots) but that because of the way the VME was implemented
it would not support bus-master cards.  I should think that this would be a 
rather popular (=customer demand) item considering it could be used in TTs and
MegaSTes, not to mention any new machines that Atari comes out with (it 
doesn't look like VME will be phased out any time soon).  Who wants to get
stuck with the stock video?  Who wants to have to decide between 1024x768x24bit
color and an ethernet connection - a truly miserable choice (but I wish I had 
that choice :).  
  
>appropriate for UNIX because of the way the ACSI bus hogs the processor
>(Atari is, I believe, fighting off having to support the ACSI laser
>printer for this reason) but it you know of a good SCSI Ethernet, I'd
>be intereted in hearing details.  At one time there was support for
>such a device, but the mfg. discontinued it.  I know there was a
>company doing such a device for Macs (in Utah?), but I never did get
>any more info on them.

	The company, Asante, builds Mac SCSI-ethernet cards. I am sure there
are other companies, but this is only one I know of (and have the address of).
Their address & phone number is:
	Asante' Technologies, 404 Tasman Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089
1-800-662-9686
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>Mats Wichmann
>Systems Software Consultant
>alruna!mats@ossi.com (or mats@netcom.com)