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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:12:23 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Message-ID: <13213799@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <4is3lc$1b7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- > Carl Mueller (mueller@cs.unc.edu) wrote:
- > : "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de> writes:
- > : >In Article <4il0f3$qhg@whitney.cs.unc.edu>, Carl Mueller <mueller@cs.unc.edu> wrote:
- > : >> [...]
- > : >> Still, a stackable design would be nice. At least there's the opportunity
- > : >> for a 3rd-party case maker to offer some alternatives.
- > : >
- > : > Guess what, the Walker board meets the size specs for *standard* PC
- > : >cases. Pick the one you like, find a screwdriver and move the thing
- > : >over to the new case. It's as simple as that.
- >
- > : That would be good news, but what about the slice expansion?
- >
- > Yep, standard keyboard electronics, real io ports, abilty to use 'PC cases'
- > -Hmmm does that mean mid tower? What about the vertical expansion boards?-,
- > all that would be left is a serial mouse port and the ability to use internal
- > modems. Well, that and a slew of third party boards enabling PPC, scsi, and
- > PCI svga cards. Going to 1 Meg roms seems silly to me, it would be much
- > better to put more on the hard drive.
-
- 1 Meg ROMs may be inevitable if the machine is going to boot from
- CD-ROM. The current ROM is already creaking like a wooden hut in a gale,
- that little space it left. The CD-ROM filing system has to fit
- in there. You can't put everything onto hard disk drive.
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