Re: The IBM PC's slavish devotion to the Apple II

[hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins)]

In article <7D9Ga.12162$fe.227069@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
Chuck Morris <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:


>Such features as the Apple II's expansion slots
>were included in the design of the PC because they were a good idea in the
>first place, 

The expansion slots are being looked at entirely from the wrong angle.

What the Apple and a couple of others did wasn't so much adding
expansion boards to a base machine, but providing a complete base
machine on the motherboard, rather than distributed across a couple of
slots on the motherboard a la S-100 and SS-50 (?).

Others (TRS-80, PET) went further, abandoning the slots entirely.

hawk
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