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Amiga Zorro II

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The prototype "Zorro bus" expansion box for the Amiga 1000 was the basis for the initial Amiga 2000-A model design. This box connected to the Amiga 1000 unbuffered CPU bus card
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Interfaces are listed by their speed in the (roughly) ascending order, so the interface at the end of each section should be the fastest.
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protocol for automatic address space assignment (similar to the later
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use a 100-pin connector and the card form factor is the same as the
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RAM expansion card for Zorro II Bus (4 MB installed, max 8 MB)
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computer. The bus is mainly a buffered extension of the
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Zorro II cards implement the 150:, a 32-bit, asynchronous bus. 1: 1044:Intel Ultra Path Interconnect 202:Zorro II I/O expansion space 1022:Intel QuickPath Interconnect 1012:Direct Media Interface (DMI) 234: 231: 223: 220: 216:motherboard register space 209: 206: 198: 195: 187: 184: 174: 171: 1565: 1544:Motherboard expansion slot 1466: 1007:Compute Express Link (CXL) 146:Zorro II was succeeded by 1443: 1244:IEEE-1284 (parallel port) 1159:logical device interface) 614:other Amiga custom chips 29:This article includes a 1549:Computer hardware stubs 531:Original Chip Set (OCS) 267:Amiga Hardware Database 136:technology on the PC). 58:more precise citations. 806:List of bus bandwidths 541:Enhanced Chipset (ECS) 113:bus, with support for 99: 91: 686:Amiga video connector 556:Commodore AA+ Chipset 462:Unofficial PPC models 441:Unofficial 68k models 97: 89: 1249:IEEE-1394 (FireWire) 987:PCI Extended (PCI-X) 561:Amiga Hombre chipset 164:Size [MByte] 98:Amiga Zorro II cards 1090:Parallel ATA 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Amiga 2000
Motorola 68000
bus mastering
DMA
expansion slots
IBM PC
Autoconfig
PCI
edge connector
Zorro III
Chip memory
A2000
Amiga portal
Amiga Hardware Database
Discussion about speed of Zorro
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