[comp.arch] AT-Bus workstations?

peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (11/01/90)

Anyone remember the early Apollos with Apple-II busses for the same reason?

In article <1990Oct31.182519.2795@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> One should note, however, that the usefulness of this is greatly exaggerated.
> You say you want to use all those nifty AT peripherals?  Well, just how do
> you plan to write device drivers for them?  [no hardware docs, no spec]

For the real weird way-out peripherals in industral catalogs, I'd suggest
sticking an STD-bus in there.
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