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- From: pbauer@athena.mit.edu (Paul H Bauer)
- Subject: Re: Turbo IDE Card description
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.215121.28415@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <la46828@pro-cajun.cts.com> <1992Dec11.134016.8827@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Dec11.181147.3239@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:51:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.181147.3239@news.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
- >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.
- >
- Does this mean it is going to have problems with a 2e with the
- zip 8000 or a GS with a TW or Zip card? If we have any other hardware
- configuration are we going to have to get special ROM's for these???
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- pbauer
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