Date   : Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:17:41 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: PC/Econet

In article <1087732660.7592.40.camel@...>,
   Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 10:45, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 10:40, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > > I was actually wondering if a PC parallel port had enough speed to just
> > > drive one of the Master-type Econet modules.

[ISA cards]

> I'm not sure where the hang-up requiring Acorn to include a 6502 on the
> ISA Econet board was - whether it was a speed issue with ISA bus itself

Or maybe it was just that they had a lovely hand crafted assembler Econet
software stack and the least effort approach could therefore have been to
run it natively and bolt on an ISA interface (say, triggered by an IRQ) than
to port it all to a PC driver?

Slap the 68B54 on a PCI card I say.

And what's all this "reply to the person and CC the list" business? Surely
someone wouldn't unsubscribe from the list within hours of making a post?
Sprow.