Date   : Wed, 14 Oct 1987 01:23:30 GMT
From   : pyramid!csg@lll-lcc.arpa (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Subject: Re: 8 bit S-100 update to 16 or 32 bit

In article <5374@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch
has windows) Meyer) writes:
>I'd try Viasyn, as they appear to be the best company still in the S-100
>business (or in business the last time I looked).

The other die-hard S-100 company is Cromemco (now a wholy owned subsidary of
Dynatech). Biggest problem is their boards wander on some of the details of
IEEE-696 compliance; once in a rare while you may have some incompatability
problems. But their S-100 boards tend to be much more *useful* that Viasyn
boards, which often combine oddball features that are difficult to use. If
you run Cromix, you can even add drivers for your peripherals with relatively
little pain, although you'll need some kind of supported disk drive to boot
the thing first.

Cromemco does have an S-100 68020 card; it runs the memory over a private bus
and uses the S-100 just for I/O. Of course, you have to buy Cromemco's memory
cards for it, too.

[Disclaimer: I obviously don't work for Cromemco, nor do I have any interest
in the company.]

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