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Re: //GS

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From: Rick N. Fincher
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1986 19:32
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> The data bus is 8 bits long.  The address bus is 24 bits long; during
> the first half of a cycle the high order 8 bits of address show up on the 
> data bus, where they are externally latched so that they'll be around for
> the second half of the memory cycle, which is where most of the action takes
> place.  There's no way you could have 16 bit data bus expansion slots, I
> don't know what they do with the addressing of these slots now.
> 

I think he meant 24 bit address bus expansion slots.  This could be done
easily, although it would probably be better to demux the 8 high address
lines on a card.   

Rick Fincher
ranger@ecsvax
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