Re: Modern A2 successor

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Arkain wrote:

> ??? What??? Don't you have any imagination? There are only at least 10
> specific things that I could use the slots for...
>
> Unlisted posibilities for the slots:
>
>  1. Ethernet cards

The problem here of course, is the bus is a tight bottleneck.

>
>  2. Appletalk cards

IIGS already has this on the motherboard

>
>  3. Modem cards

Who's gonna make a XTII modem?

>
>  4. Accelerator cards

But if you're making a new motherboard you shouldn't need to do this.

>
>  5. Co-processor cards

Ditto

>
>  6. Scsi cards

Ditto

>
>  7. USB cards
>  8. FireWire cards

Ditto for both - though, I'm so far behind that I really don't know what I'd do
with either of these :-)

>
>  9. Video Capture cards
> 10. TV Video/S Video out cards

Cool - but PCI cards already exist for these, and who will design and
manufactor these in the dozens?

>
> 11. Home automation cards
> 12. Cards for proprietary interfaces

I don't mean to be too negative, really, but someone has reported that there
are about 1000 lurkers here, perhaps another couple of hundred on Delphi, and
I'm sure there have got to be a couple thousand II users elsewhere, but who
could stay alive making at most 2000 new computers?

Please believe me though, I do hope you are successful.

Roy

>
>
> ... and these still don't account for the ability to install and use
> enhanced versions of the built-in hardware! I just want the new system to
> start off as complete as we would have otherwise expected it to be.
>
> As for where I'd put it all.... Have you ever seen the motherboard in a PC
> system loaded with integrated components? Believe me. It'll all fit.
>
> Arkain.
>
> Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
> 39806E1D.82C7B94E@inetnebr.com">news:39806E1D.82C7B94E@inetnebr.com...
> > With all that onboard stuff, two questions: 1) Where are you gonna put it
> all;
> > 2) Why still have slots if there is no need to put anything in them?