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From: AGO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Problem with IIci + NuBus cards???
Message-ID: <90312.094155AGO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 90 17:41:55 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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   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.
It sounds to me like software vendors would take care of such a problem
pretty rapidly...

   Does this sound familiar to anybody? Right? Wrong? Comments would be
greatly appreciated! It's easier to find out this way than after
getting the Mac out of the box...

                                     Romain 'Ago' Agostini
                               Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
                                Stanford University, California
                                 ago@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu