X-Surf II, what a scam...

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@Acill

When it is all so damm easy and cheap to do, why don't you
just start to do it yourself ?

You know, designing the bridge, writing the drivers, production
distribution .....

Cards like the Ariadne were even more expensive, same goes
for Multi-serial-boards and such like. They all have one
thing in common. One took a standard chip (or card the differene
is minimal) from the PC-world, added a Zorro-interface and
a driver ....

Thats how it works in a market were you can only sell less
than 1000 pieces of one product.

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@Cass

Problem is, you will hardly any 100MBit chips with an ISA-interface, while
that is no prob for 10MBit chips. And building a Z2-to-PCI interface costs much
more than a Z2-to-ISA interface.


Make it an Z3-2-PCI interface, combined with the low number that can expected
to be sold (~100), and you might end up at over 200Euro ......

And you won't be able to sell even 100 at that price ....

But really is that a problem ? You got Amigas with PCI-bridges, you got
Amigas with HighWay/Algor (allowing for the Norway-upgrade), you got the X-Surf,
and you got lots of 2nd hand cards.