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From: steveg@ni.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Interchangeability Fx/Cx
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.035119.20529@ni.umd.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 03:51:19 GMT
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In article <48194@apple.Apple.COM> ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>In article <62149@bbn.BBN.COM> seibel@bbn.com (Fred Seibel) writes:
>>
>>Is it possible to take the disk and system configured for a MacIIcx, and plug
>>it into a MacIIfx and expect it to work without any reconfiguration?
>
>Interesting theoretical question. I don't personally know if you
>have for instance same cards in the same slot IDs in the machines would 
>avoid a reconfiguration. In most cases it's maybe better that the
>system does a reconfig when encountering new cards though.

AUX will reconfigure if ethernet cards are not in the same slots.  As far
as I can remember, it does not care where the monitor card is.  I think AUX
does a sequential search for monitor cards at boot time.


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