Re: servos

Hi Dean,

I like this idea - the only reservation I would have is that it would come
perilously close to the heart of the machine. Do you think it could be
designed to incorporate opto isolators or would they slow it down too much?

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK

> From: "Dean Franks" <dean@...>
>
> One possibility to consider is using ide controller ports. Auxilliary
> controllers are cheap, they are very fast and easy to deal with in

software.

> You do not have to implement a device-side protocol (as in USB or SCSI),

ide

> is basically a decoded mezzanine bus that is buffered from the actual CPU
> bus.