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Originally Posted by sje
The S-100 bus had too many problems physically, electronically, and logically. That's why it died out so quickly. Designed for the 8080, and not very well at that, it is a piling of kludge upon kludge to make the S-100 bus work for a 6502, 65856, or 68000.
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Its already enough of a stretch to throw a 68000 on an S-100 card and say "Altair runs Linux".
It has to at least get power from the S-100 bus and make the lights blink!
Imagine it, with Linux the Altair would finally be Slashdot worthy.
