Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!cpro!asgard From: asgard@cpro.UUCP (J.R. Stoner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GATHER and say NO to MCA! Message-ID: <401@cpro.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 01:37:04 GMT References: <11463@steinmetz.ge.com> Organization: COG Gateway, Hayward, CA Lines: 18 From article <11463@steinmetz.ge.com>, by davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr): _ There is a bus which allows multiple masters (DMA and CPUs look the _ same) with a priority scheme, stacked interrupts, etc. It even allows _ diferrent CPUs to reprioritize the interrupt handling. It has been in _ continuous production since 1976 and is available with all Intel _ processors (I suspect the 432 is no longer sold), 68k and NS32k family, _ etc. _This is the IEEE696 standard bus. Somebody call my name? Sorry, it was just rather refreshing to hear about a thing which CompuPro has had a substantial part in developing and not elicit the what-is-that? reaction. I get frustrated sometimes when people say you can't address COM1 in an S100 machine. Some people just can't get IBM out of their collective heads no matter how hard you bang on them. We get tech calls like this almost every day.