Re: OKS Kache Plus Card Clone

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

sfahey wrote:
>   To: Polymorph
> On 7/3/08 1:34 AM, in article
> 9b73e7e0-8f6d-44a5-9211-518158d0a741@u36g2000prf.googlegroups.com,
> "Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > At the risk of sounding a tad silly - what exactly is an OKS Kache
> > Plus card??
>
>
> Back in the day, it was a high-end "intelligent" caching controller with
> built-in multi-I/O that could interface 5.25 and later, 3.5 drives. It also
> had serial, parallel ports and SCSI add-ons. It was notable for greatly
> accelerating disk I/O (via cache) on floppy drives... And IIRC, it ran
> everything without the need for phantom slots.

That sounds pretty interesting, too, since the slots are the "namespace"
of I/O devices in the Apple II...

It isn't difficult to make a particular application use any kind of
I/O, but it seems difficult to make all the "slot-aware" applications
use, say, serial I/O without a slot number.

-michael

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