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- From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
- Subject: Re: II vx Vs Ci
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:19:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.011032.136532@watson.ibm.com>, arsouth@watson.ibm.com
- (Andrew R. Southwick) wrote:
-
- > PDS Slot Yes No
-
- To go along with that, you might add:
-
- Cache Connector No Yes
-
- All currently shipping IIci's include a 32K cache card (plugged into this
- connector). Older IIci's (as you might find in the used market) may not.
-
- > I seem to remember that the IIci was sold with a 128k external (i.e. in
- > the cache slot) cache plugged in. Please, no flames. If you know, please
- > post! With source!
-
- It's 32K from Apple (which is the one bundled with the currently shipping
- IIci's). Other vendors, however, sell caches for the IIci which are 32K,
- 64K or 128K. I haven't seen any other sizes, but they certainly could
- exist. Source? Me :-)
-
- > ... P. Stadelmann mentioning the ROM
- > in the IIvx allows use of a RAM disk, something I myself was provided through
- > the OS, not hardware.
-
- The ROM is really software too. It's just software stored in chips rather
- than on a disk. You are correct that this feature is not provided by the
- hardware; he is correct that it requires the software in the ROM.
-
- > And I really do not appreciate your
- > claim at my distributing falsehoods, giving the impression that you view my
- > actions as malicious, or myself as uninformed.
-
- Well, I agree that you weren't being malicious, but you might have prefaced
- your list with a note that you weren't certain of some details and wanted
- help verifying it and filling in any missing points -- more like what you
- did the second posting! Uninformed? Nah -- I'd just say misinformed on
- some details :-)
-
- noah
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