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Article #21169Re: The Great Falcon Debate
From: Claus Brod
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:25
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:25
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Juxtaposer (baffoni@phakt.usc.edu) wrote: > If the only thing skimped on is the 16 datalines from the CPU to the > "standard" memory, wouldn't it be possible to simply make an adapter from the > 68882 socket (which to my knowledge _must_ have all data lines to the CPU) That's not quite true. The 6888x can be configured to work with 16-bit buses by hard-wiring certain signals (A0 and /SIZE), and then only one half of the 32 data lines will need to be connected. I don't know if they used such a solution in the Falcon, however. -- --clausb@hpbeo79.bbn.hp.com---------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, MDD, HP Boeblingen Things. Take. Time. (Piet Hein) --#include <std_disclaimer>----------------------------------------------
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From: clausb@hpbbrd.bbn.hp.com (Claus Brod) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:25:27 GMT Subject: Re: The Great Falcon Debate Message-ID: <BzEL6G.2HF@hpbbrd.bbn.hp.com> Organization: HP Mechanical Design Division Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpbbrd!clausb Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st References: <1go236INNdkn@phakt.usc.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6] Lines: 14