Re: RAM cards for IIe

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <20040720183153.19209.00002065@mb-m04.aol.com>,
 mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

> Martin Doherty asked:
> 
> >Do you know if the Q-RAM IIe is softswitch-compatible with Apple's 1MB 
> >AUX RAM card, or the RAMWorks series from Applied Engineering, or do 
> >each of these card families employ their own home-grown control methods 
> >that make software compatibility a PITA? (I assign a 99% probabiliity to 
> >the latter, but thought I'd ask).
> >
> >Would anyone care to do a knowledge dump about the various AUX RAM 
> >cards, how they work, how common applications can take advantage of them 
> >etc.?
> >
> >I suppose they MUST conform to Apple's specification to some extent at 
> >least, if only to support DHRG?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> And all later models, like the Q-RAM, conform to the RAMWorks extended
> standard, since it established a _de facto_ bank-switching extension to
> Apple's standard.

Wasn't that particular "standard" referred to as "Slinky"? Or was that 
the Apple standard? I remember something about "Slinky" memory cards 
that couldn't be talked to in quite the same way as you'd talk to an 
actual Apple card, but with the passing years, the specifics have done 
the old "use it or lose it" thing on me. As in, "I didn't use it, I lost 
it"...

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