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>To Richard E. Covert and others of your philosophy:
>one card isn't really that bad anymore - we already have enough ports
>built-in, and that was the primary purpose of one of these interface
>cards anyway - for simple i/o.

   Maybe for you, but not for me:  I like to experiment, have some data
collection cards goin' in unison, have a coprocessor doing some crunching.

>Any analog-digital converter SHOULD be designed to plug into a DMA, SCSI
>or some other fast port. This way, it won't be computer specific.
>In general, computer specific hardware addons will be a thing of the past.

   Since when is VME a computer-specific thingy?  Seems to me I've seen a
lot of VME-based computers.
   SCSI-basid things would be okay, until you have more than seven.  DMA
is great too, but after a few daisy-chains, how do ya' do it?  (Don't know
how things are accessed using DMA.)

>I bet that those card slots in the IBMs aren't much faster if they are at
>all).

   Cards in the PC that don't do DMA are clocked at 8MHz on the AT.



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