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ZorroIII Buster and comparison with PCI
« on: May 13, 2004, 10:36:26 PM »
Hey all. I'm defenitly not a hardware guy but I understand some concepts. Following some Zorro3 discussions in the past I got the impression that the only reason for the Zorro3 bus not to approach more the 100MB/s limit it's the Buster chip. Is this correct?
PCI must have some bus arbitration too right? So does that mean that PCI's "Buster" is much better, or the implementation is very different?
I'm asking this cause the theoretical speed limit of both isn't very different.
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Re: ZorroIII Buster and comparison with PCI
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2004, 04:50:12 AM »
Well, coudn't someone just make it as a hobby? There are a lot  of projects like that that work in the end.
Kinda like the Coldfire accelerator someone is doing.
To improve the transfer of current PCI to Zorro cards would be cool.
I'd also love to see new modern ZIII cards but I know it's not worth it economically.
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