Arcom SC88T, Technical Manual

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Section 1. Introduction
The SC88T is a powerful and expandable single-board computer, based on the
Intel 80188 microprocessor. It is designed as a CPU board for CPU in a large
control system. It uses the industry-standard STEbus, so a large range of
peripheral boards are available.
Software allows programs written in Borland C to be put into an EPROM and
run on the SC88T without disks, and support for development on a PC. Contact
us for details.
The STEbus interface is an important feature of the SC88T. The bus is being
ratified by the IEEE (IEEE designation is P1000), and it is designed as a
processor- and manufacturer-independent, asynchronous, multiprocessing bus.
The asynchronous nature of the bus means that a slave board (memory or I/O)
must acknowledge commands by the SC88T, which will wait until it does, so
that any speed of peripheral board can be accessed by any speed of CPU board.
The multiprocessing ability lets you run several CPU boards on the same bus.
This is explained in greater detail later on.
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