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From: mwedel@hobbes.uucp (Mark Wedel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Slot Assignments
Keywords: Slots, Booting, Pascal
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Date: 18 Jul 89 19:56:49 GMT
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  One of the other main reasons while cards have standard locations is
because apple Pascal dictated it.  With pascal, you had to have your
floppy drive in slot 6, second in slot 5, third in slot 4, and I'm not
sure of the fourth.  Also, it would only take a printer card in slot 1
and a communications card in slot 2.  Because of this, many people
followed this convention, so that if they used pascal, they would have
the full powers of all their cards and so that they would not have to
re-arrange it when using..

  As for booting, I'm not sure, but I think the computer may be smart
enough to know what it can and cannot boot (if you put a printer card
in slot 7, and disk controller in slot 6, it might just boot slot 6,
and ignore the printer card..)

  I'm not sure if the new version of Apple Pascal still needs these
standard slot locations.

Mark Wedel
mwedel@hobbes.Tymnet.Com
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