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Re: slots

On Sat, 27 May 2000 15:03:51 -0700, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

...
>Keep in mind though that it's become customary to place certain
>cards in certain slots and a lot of software will expect it there and
>often not accept any other slot. For example it became customary
>almost from the beginning to put the 80 column card in slot 3 and
>there probably aren't many programs that'll accept it anywhere else

Also, many programs that come on 5.25" disk are hard-coded to only
function from slot 6.  Pascal can be anal about what cards are where,
too.