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- From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
- Subject: Re: Turbo IDE Card description
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.181147.3239@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <behrenss.723939948@hphalle6> <la46828@pro-cajun.cts.com> <1992Dec11.134016.8827@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:11:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.134016.8827@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:
- >In article <la46828@pro-cajun.cts.com> sysadm@pro-cajun.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
- >>Nice specs, why is it important to specify which machine (//e or //gs) when
- >>you order the card. I own both and would hope that the card is
- >>interchangeable between machines like the Apple Rev C., DMA SCSI cards are.
- >
- >The ROM on the card is highly optimized for maximum throughput, using 65816
- >commands in the GS version. You can order both ROMs (if I recall correctly,
- >a ROM costs $10), so if you want to swap machines (which you don't do every
- >day normally, anyway ;), you just exchange the ROM and that's it.
-
- Although, in theory, you should be able to use the //e version
- in both machines. That way, you wouldn't have to swap ROM chips.
-
- Soenke, you should get Joachim to test it, but it should work.
-
- >Soenke
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