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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Want info on PCMCIA
- Message-ID: <10106@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:32:33 GMT
- References: <1796@dsinet>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
- Lines: 43
- Keywords: PCMCIA A600 A1200 IBM Ethernet
-
- In article <1796@dsinet> jonn@chusuk (Jon Noble) writes:
- >
- >I'm looking for more info on PCMCIA as it relates to the A600, A1200, et.al.
- >Is this slot PCMCIA 2.0 compatible?
-
- Yes.
-
- >I see IBM advertising three new PCMCIA 2.0 cards for PC laptops that provide
- >connections to:
- > 1. Token ring
- > 2. Ethernet
- > 3. 3270
- >
- >Do these cards rely on the laptop Intel processor and MS-DOS?
-
- I don't believe that. They are peripherals. Period. We have already PCMCIA
- memory cards that work on these Amigas.
-
- >Are they plug-
- >and-play in the A600/1200? (I doubt it.) Can a driver for AmigaDOS be created
- >that would otherwise make these cards plug-and-play?
-
- I strongly believe that a driver software can be created. But I'm also
- sure that this has not yet been done. But who knows who surprises us
- with such a nice thing in near time?
-
- >In general, is any PCMCIA card (memory, modem, disk drive) directly "compatible"
- >on any hardware platform, or are software drivers required to provide the glue
- >between the card and the computer?
-
- You nearly always need a software driver.
-
- >One last one: if, as I suspect, the answer is that drivers are required, is
- >C= or any third parties working on such drivers for specific cards?
-
- Don't know. But now with A1200 and A600 really taking off and selling in
- numbers it would pretty dumb for some PCMCIA designer to not take the
- chance and also cover this big market!
-
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- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions...
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