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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 10 mhz chips
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.192441.26228@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 19:24:41 GMT
References: <13523.apple.net@pro-sol>
Reply-To: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network, Norman, OK
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In article <13523.apple.net@pro-sol> mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from mattd@apple.com
>
>You write:
>> Do you think all people who would want a new IIgs would be ready to give
>> up there 5.25" disk cards, their Video Overlay cards, their FPE cards,
>> maybe their TransWarp cards, . . . .  I have my doubts.
>
>The whole basis behind the IIGS was to give enhanced computing power to the
>Apple II series in a handful of major hardware updates from the old IIe
>design.  To continue this, I propose that Apple design their next II-series
>machine with the old 8-bit slots, the expansion RAM/ROM slot, and a couple of
>NuBus slots to give the system a real I/O bus wider than the choking 8-bits
>we've lived with since 1978.  That way we don't have to give up anything.
>
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   Or how about slots that are capable of using both.  There are slots in the
   IBM (yuck but they are not by IBM) that can use 8 and 16 bit slots.  I 
   think they are called something like EISA or something like that.  THAT
   would be nice don't you think?

	  Collin Douglas

	  cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu