Re: Slots in IIgs

["Bryan Parkoff" <bryan.nospam.parkoff@nospam.com>]

    Do you want to redesign Apple IIgs that it will support 16 slots?  Think
about Intel.  Intel supports up to 65,536 ports.  How do you overcome the
limit?  In fact, Apple IIgs does not need 256 bytes of ROM per slot, but it
can be up to 1MB of ROM per slot that it is mapped into banks.  Think about
this.

-- 
Bryan Parkoff
"Kelli Halliburton" <kelli217@crosswinds.not> wrote in message
news:c8o488$2uj@dispatch.concentric.net...
> The only available slot, according to the control panel, is Slot 7. Slot 7
> can be switched in as onboard AppleTalk, but then you have to switch out
> either the printer port (Slot 1) or the modem port (Slot 2). That seems
> reasonable to me, since there are only two built-in mini-DIN
communications
> ports on the back panel, so something has to be switched out.
>
> I would imagine that if I wanted to install a Focus HD, I would put it in
> either 2 or 7, depending on whether or not I wanted to use networking (put
> the Focus in Slot 2) or a modem (put the Focus in Slot 7), or perhaps use
> network printing (Slot 1).
>
> I would imagine that if I managed to find a Second Sight VGA video card, I
> would put it in Slot 3, as from what I recall that seems to be the slot
the
> IIgs uses for the 80-column display. Substituting a card for a similar
> onboard function.
>
> But what would I do if I wanted to install a SCSI card as well, so I could
> use an external CD? I'd just have to pick which other onboard function I'd
> be able to do without? Such as Slot 5 and give up my onboard 5.25" floppy
> access?
>
> How do those of you with "tricked-out" IIgs systems resolve these issues
of
> choosing between onboard functions that take up slot access or expansion
> cards that take up access to onboard functions?
>
>