Hmm... Q-bus to ISA bridgeboard anyone? :)

		David/absolute

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On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Jacob Suter wrote:

> Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just make some low cost PC-style
> hardware that plugs into qbus, etc...  It'd be cool to see what a
> halfway modern video processor (S3, ATI Mach64, etc) and decent SCSI
> and/or IDE.  
> 
> Hey, maybe even multiple graphics/keyboard/mouse consoles on faster
> machines....  With today's microelectronics the sky is the limit.
> 
> JS
> 
> 
> David Evans wrote:
> > 
> > Brian D Chase wrote:
> > >
> > > But if we can do IDE, then maybe we can consider
> > > moving on to bigger and better things like SCSI... or hell, maybe even a
> > > new ethernet device... Or a SCSI/IDE/ethernet combo controller... Or how
> > > about a simple graphics board that we can actually code a driver for, and
> > > that would drive a standard SVGA monitor :-)
> > >
> > 
> >   I think we need PCMCIA hardware.  It would be best on a 9000, of course.
> > 
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