Re: Design Apple Drive For PC

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

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> Bryan,
>     I am interested in hearing just what you'd want out of such a card. You
> mention a PCI card... would an ISA version be just as acceptable? I'm still
> using one of those motherboards without an agp slot, as my primary system,
> so I realize I'm behind the times a bit. Also, which operating systems would
> you most want to see drivers/software written for?

PC-DOS, anything else could be based on that.

> My intention would be to
> release all hardware info, so that anyone could come along and write a
> driver for os/2, or beos or whatever... but in the meantime I might only be
> capable of doing such for win32, or just possibly linux. Finally, would
> there be any point in adding any other devices to the card? I'm thinking
> myself, that a localtalk port might come in handy, and wouldn't add any
> unreasonable cost to the total. I would think that emulator authors would
> jump at the chance to have it emulate a workstation card, or the GS's
> localtalk port.
>
> Thanks,
> John Oyler
> http://aIIethernet.tripod.com/
> jojo4@va.mediaone.net