My evil modular plans

[Magnus Danielson]

>>>>> "J" == JDMcEachin  <jdm at synthcom.com> writes:

 J> At 11:50 AM 4/22/97 -0000, Paul Schreiber wrote:
 >> 4) Moog 35 on a ISA card
 >> 
 >> I am pondering doing a full EXACT copy (part for part, slop and all) all on
 >> an IBM ISA card. Plugs into your PC. Can patch it, CakeWalk it, etc.
 >> Guessing this will run about $750. Any response? Have I lost all
 >> sense on this one???
 >> 
 >> Your kind comments and feedback welcome!

 J> Bad idea.  Wintel's PC98 specification does away with ISA/EISA.  Your
 J> potential market for ISA cards will be shrinking, not growing.  Plus, you'll
 J> be leaving out the large number of people using MacOS for music, many of
 J> which have a PCI bus.

 J> Moog 35 on a PCI card, however, is a great idea.

In a way I agree, but if you want to be truely generic, you build the
core into an box and ue very simple adapter cards that can be bus
specific. This is how the MPU-401 can be connected to diffrent
machines. It's elegant but with the obvious drawback of yeat another
box to stuff somewhere and extra cables. The obvious trouble of card
settings will be there anyhow.

ISA is a bus which we will be happy to get rid of due to obvious
limits and design flaws, and the market is moving that way too. There
is no other bus that expands as fast in diffrent manufactor and
architecture basis as the PCI rigth now. It's in almost everything
from portable PCs up to clustered Alpha-based mainframes from Digital.

Cheers,
Magnus