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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 10 mhz chips
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Date: 13 Nov 89 01:14:54 GMT
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In article <36403@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
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>Faster video is one thing, but faster I/O could very well mean that none of the
>existing peripheral cards for the Apple II would work in such a new IIgs.  Do 
>you think all people who would want a new IIgs would be ready to give up their
>5.25" disk cards, their Video Overlay cards, their FPE cards, maybe their
>TransWarp cards, their parallel printer cards, their slot-based RAM cards,
>their IEEE-488 cards, and who knows what else?  I have my doubts.

Why not have both?  Maybe you could have the existing slots and a few faster
ones or perhaps a control panel setting that would let you set slots to fast
or slow (normal in Control Panel parlance!).  Then the user could configure
the machine depending on wether a fast or slow card is being used.

Hmmm... while we're brainstorming, the ROM on the card could determine its
slot and set the Control Panel itself.  This would be easier for users.

Any comments folks?

Rick
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu