From edick@idcomm.com Thu Oct 25 20:58:48 2001 From: edick@idcomm.com To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org Subject: SLOT 8 (was: ISA cards for free.. Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:58:48 +0000 Message-ID: <001901c15dc1$c0f5f3a0$9cc762d8@idcomm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1241999303484147388==" --===============1241999303484147388== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yes, but were there any unbuffered slots on the orignal PC? Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" To: Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:24 PM Subject: Re: SLOT 8 (was: ISA cards for free.. > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote: > > REALLY! I had no idea that they'd so something so silly as dedicate a sl= ot on > > an otherwise modern (unlike the APPLE-][) backplane. > > A company as big as IBM "doesn't HAVE TO learn from the mistakes of > others". Remember the PCJr original keyboard? > > > > What's different about that slot? > > "Wrong" side of a buffer. > > > I've never owned a "real" XT, so I've never > > had to wrestle with that. My first PC was a '186-based clone, and I've never > > looked back. Was that "slot-8" compatibility creature a bug in the PC as well? > > IBM had a LOT of serial cards that nobody wanted (on a 5 slot PC, the > market wanted multifunction!) > Every XT from IBM came with a "FREE" serial card. It blocked slot 8 from > being used by anything else that MIGHT have a problem with it, and gave > the public image impression of a generous (they were more expensive then!) > freebie. > > > Was that "slot-8" compatibility creature a bug in the PC as well? > Yes and no. :-) > Since the PC had 5 slots, there was HARDLY EVER a problem with slot number > 8! > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com > DogEars > > --===============1241999303484147388==--