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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: Turbo IDE Card description
- References: <1992Dec11.181147.3239@news.columbia.edu> <behrenss.724116241@hphalle6> <1992Dec12.010748.13116@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:20:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.010748.13116@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu (David Chiu) writes:
- >>> 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.
- >>True. But then, on the GS, you'd probably have less speed under P8. Oh well
- >Wouldn't it be easier to just use a larger capacity ROM chip and select
- >//e | //gs using a single jumper?
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- Would be, yes. The ROM is 64k now, if I recall correctly, so you'd have to make
- it 128k. I guess the inventor figured it wasn't worth the cost.
- (The ROM is not only machine specific, it is also slot specific (again, the
- speed). You choose your slot with dip switches :)
-
- Soenke
-