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Offline iamaboringperson

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Re: Why did the amiga use Zorro instead of ISA and PCI to begin with?
« on: November 17, 2003, 03:53:42 AM »
ISA is crap.
Back in the mid 80's it was crap.

Zorro was great(and Amiga specific)!



S-100 bus was used on a variety of Z-80 and 8080 based machines. Different brands even.

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Re: Why did the amiga use Zorro instead of ISA and PCI to begin with?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2003, 04:49:38 AM »
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What model was that? An IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 has 16bit ISA slots.
Alot of those machines had 8-bit ISA slots in 286 based machines.

From memory I think there were some machines that had a combination of 8-bit ISA & 8/16-bit ISA slots.

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