Suitability of Specific I/O Boards
Jerome_V_Vollborn at cup.portal.com
Jerome_V_Vollborn at cup.portal.com
Thu Sep 20 13:30:24 AEST 1990
I am currently specifying a system for displaying graphics and
text derived from data on a tape. The chosen software is ISC
386ix with X and Motif widgets. The delivered system will be
single purpose so no development tools are required.
The tape has a SCSI interface and the display is required to
be a 640x480 electroluminescent (16 "grey" shades). The current
(strawman) configuration includes an Adaptec AHA 1542B floppy,
hard disk and tape controller; a Maxtor 7040 (possibly 7080)
hard disk; a Paradise 8514/A Plus card; a Western Digital
16C552 serial/parallel card; a Logitech Trackman serial track
ball; a Fujitsu 1.44MB, 3.5 inch floppy; and a generic AT101
keyboard. We may use a passive backplane and a Integrated
Solutions Corp. 386 card or an AMI mother board. In either
case there will be 8Mbytes of memory.
Any comments you have on the suitability of this configuration
will be of interest. If you have had any experience with any
of these cards that you are willing to share, I would be happy
to hear them. As always, please email. If there is sufficient
interest, I will summarize to the net.
Thanks in advance.
Jerome Vollborn
(uunet!lci386!jerome or
Jerome_V_Vollborn at cup.portal.com )
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