Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!trwind!venice!gilmore From: gilmore@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Larry Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Slots Message-ID: <825@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> Date: 28 Sep 90 14:52:19 GMT Reply-To: gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com (Larry Gilmore) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 22 In Message-ID: Date: 27 Sep 90 22:02:40 GMT Dan Peterka writes: >Speaking of slots - how many of you have ever seen someone use more >than 3 slots? Enough to make it worth Apple's while to sell a big box >like the IIx and IIfx? Seems like an Nubus expansion cabinet concept >would be a better idea to reduce manufacturing and inventory costs - >or does this only make sense to non-marketing types? We have a IIx supplied by Symbolics with their Lisp-engine MacIvory system. The Symbolics card set only has one card-edge connector, but uses a piggy-back board that covers another slot. There is also an Intel extended memory board that is used by the MacIvory (8 Mbyte, in addition to the 5 for the Motorola chip), an EtherNet card, and a color video controller. The last might be omitted if smaller screen/ fewer colors were acceptable, but we are running 24 bit on a Radius 19". This setup uses 5 slot spaces. An extension chassis could be a solution if Symbolics supported it; also the system is desired to be as easily shippable (is that really a word ?) as possible. Larry Gilmore gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com