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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem with IIci + NuBus cards???
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Date: 9 Nov 90 01:21:37 GMT
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AGO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:

}   I was considering buying a IIci and equip it with a video card
}for a 19" monitor and an Ethernet card (that's 2 NuBus slots). Now,
}someone warned me that this will cause trouble for the following
}reason:
}
}   Apparently, a majority of software packages get into trouble and
}crash due to the fact that they don't handle the management of the
}additional cards (except for the video card) correctly. As we don't
}have any IIci with 2 expansion cards here, I can't verify this directly.

Hmmm.  The IIci I used for several weeks last month had a video board and
an ethernet board in it.  I would say that that person is mis-informed.

}It sounds to me like software vendors would take care of such a problem
}pretty rapidly...

You bet they would.  Anyway, you should be able to put just about any board
in the system.  Unless some software you're running is specifically looking
for that board, it should do absolutely _nothing_ to the system operation.
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