Re: Cobalt Micro (was Re: Build your own Motherboards)

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:00:36 +0200

> If you want a simple interface for wiring toys too that you can build out of
> bits of bent wire, 8 bit microcontrollers and parallel ports, and that has
> a huge range of existing compatible components use i2c bus. You can bitbang
> i2c on a parallel port and it can be quite quick (1Mbit) over random pieces
> of wire.

It's still much more complicated than things you need for a simple ISA
card -- a microcontroller instead of few TTL chips (or single GAL).

Does anybody know about the AMR thing Intel wants to replace ISA by?

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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