I'd like to see a specification created and finalized for a "Zorro IV" fibre-channel bus for the older machines. Naturally the spec should be given away gratis.
"Zorro IV" cards would reside in existing Zorro II/III sockets and draw power from the old socket, however, communication with the processor would be through a fibre port on the "Zorro IV" card to a corresponding fibre port on the processor expansion card. The fibre-channel bus would run at a clock independent of the Amiga 2/3/4000 Zorro bus speed ...potentially much faster.
Third-party vendors could adapt existing peripheral chips and components to Zorro-sized PCB's and actually run the components at their designed clock speeds, with a fast busmaster chip on the processor expansion card receiving and buffering their communication.
