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Why did the amiga use Zorro instead of ISA and PCI to begin with?
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Re: Why did the amiga use Zorro instead of ISA and PCI to begin with?
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November 16, 2003, 10:30:34 PM »
Seems simple to me: PCI didn't exist in 1985 when the Zorro concept was designed, and ISA was crap at that time. Bridgeboards did make ISA slots active on the Amiga side, but very few drivers were written.
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