Re: IIc Memory..

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 4, 5:00 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> The Slinky design only provides efficient sequential access to the
> expansion memory, and is therefore best suited for RAM disks and
> certain "swapping"-style memory managers, like Appleworks uses.
>
> In fact, I've always theorized that the Slinky design was inspired
> by Appleworks, which was the premier Apple II app that could benefit
> from memory expansion.

It was also released early enough that there were a lot of ][/+
machines still in service, and without motherboard modification bank-
switched designs are limited to the language card area, not to mention
the complications with cooperating with existing slot-0 language
cards.

Matt