Subject: Re: ADB interface
To: Brian Wimberly <brianw@scripps.edu>
From: John P. Wittkoski <jpw@insoft.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/06/1996 18:46:13
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Brian Wimberly wrote:
> Very interesting. Is this information detailed enough to help get ADB working?
>
> >John, according to an Apple document (I don't think you can get it off of
> >their FTP servers) about the PB 140 and 170: "The Power Manager
> >communicates with the main processor by using an asynchronous handshake
> >mechanism and an 8-bit parallel data bus in conjunction with the second
> >VIA." Also, from the same document, the ADB interface is identical to the
> >one used in the Macintosh Portable.
Which document was this, exactly?
Actually, I had read something like this in one of the Apple docs I have.
It's just taking me awhile to figure out exactly how it all works! There
appears to be some other control signals involved, and I haven't yet
stumbled onto the right order/combination of signals.
--John
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