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2.9 PC/AT (ISA) Slot Support
As has already been mentioned Golden Gate supports the PC/AT slots of the
Amiga. Instead of PC/AT sometimes the abbreviation ISA (Industry Standard)
is used. ISA slots can be found in almost any PC/AT and have established
themselves as a quasi standard for expansion cards in 80286, 80386 and 80486
computers.
World-wide there are thousands of manufacturers and suppliers for the most
different expansion cards. The following expansion cards of different
manufacturers have been tested with Golden Gate:
VGA graphics cards
EGA graphics cards
XT/AT/IDE hard disk controllers
SCSI host adapter
LAN 8 and I 6 Bit network cards
Interface cards (serial. parallel)
EGA/VGA graphics cards ought to be of special interest. It is possible to state
explicitly whether such a card exists in the Golden Gate
setup-program.
In
general another monitor is required for a EGA/VGA graphics card (Multisync
Monitor, VGA Monitor).
2.10 Compatibility
Purists in matters of compatibility will consider a device as 100% IBM PC/AT
compatible if this device is an IBM PC/AT. This claim is definitely not a wrong
one, but again not necessarily correct or relevant for the great amount of
users. Compatible PC/AT computers have long since grown out of being a
mere clone. They have established themselves and partly it was even them
who made progress with that technology (e.g. the systems by COMPAQ).
Golden Gate has been designed to reach the highest grade of compatibility
with a PC/AT.
Thus. the hardware of Golden Gate integrates a standard 386SX/486SLC chip
set.
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