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Re: IIe enhancement kits?

Don Bruder wrote:
> In article <1147267566.259995.225150@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
>  "BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > WTF is up with this description?!   FASTER PROCESSING?  Really?
> > Support of interrupts? Faster graphics?  Was this really in the apple
> > dealer literature or is this person smoking crack?
> >
> > ---snip---
> >  The Apple IIe Enhancement Kit gives the Apple IIe many advanced
> > features, including faster processing, MouseText character display, and
> > support of interrupts for applications such as networking.  The Apple
...
>
> Interrupts? Not without a card to generate 'em, and the slots properly
> filled to capacity so that the interrupt line is unbroken from one end
> to the other.

Yes, but I believe the enhanced ROM monitor code also had more robust
saving/usage of critical zero page memory locations (and memory
softswitches?) on interrupts, which, combined with Prodos's similar
improvements, allowed for better support of interrupt-driven hardware.