Subject: Re: New NCR driver
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 04/25/2000 09:42:28
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 09:47:06PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> Even older than the 710, although close enough that a combined 
> 700/710 driver can be written (not using some fancy features of the 710,
> I guess).

The problem is that the 700 (if I trust the infos I have in the 8xx docs :)
doesn't know indirect tables, which is a very usefull feature. For the 710
large pieces of the siop driver could be reused as is but the 700 requires a
completely new script with different mechanism :(

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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