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- Subject: IIsi expansion questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.125018.101@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
- From: Rob Winters <rwinters@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 12:50:18 +0600
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- If all of this is in a FAQ somewhere, please point me to it!!!
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- I'm contemplating buying a IIsi, and I'm a little confused about
- expansion options. My crude unterstanding is that there is an
- interface on the IIsi (call it "Slot X") that accepts a daughterboard
- that will in turn accept either a PDS card or a NuBus card. Other
- vendors also have boards that fit in Slot X that provide for more
- than one board, cache, FPU, etc.
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- I'm reading that it's probably desireable to have a video card in
- order to free up the IIsi's memory and CPU for better performance.
- Has anyone compared the performance of built-in video with that
- of old, cheap, lame, 4-bit cards like the Toby frame buffer card?
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- If any external video is better than built-in video, then I want to
- use a NuBus video card as described above. What are my options for
- Nubus expansion of the IIsi. Are there Slot X cards that provide more
- than one Nubus slot, or a NuBus and a PDS slot?
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- Who vends Slot X to Nubus adapters? Just Apple?
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- What's the diff between a PDS slot and an SE/30 slot? Any?
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- If all of the decent Slot X adapter cards provide PDS (and not NuBus),
- what are my options in the realm of 4 and 8 bit PDS video cards?
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- Thanks for any info.
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