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To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
Subject: Re: Decision in Router Purchase
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>> Is SDL forthcoming with the technical information required
>> to write and maintain drivers?
>> 
>> Jim Shankland
>> Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.
>> 
>
>Yes, I have written the driver with the information they have given me.
>They have been very helpful. They even supplied and shipped 2 N2 boards
>and a N2pci board from the USA to me here in South Africa.
>
>The bulk of the driver has to do with the Hitachi HD64570 chip that the
>board is using and that information is in the Hitachi data sheets. The
>information about how the chip is interfaced to the rest of the board
>is actually very little, because most (all) of the work is done by the
>chip. The rest of the board is actually just RAM, bus arbitration logic
>and line drivers.

gee, sounds just like their (and our) original "archaic" board designs!
Wonder what Jim was talking about.......


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