25 Oct
2001
25 Oct
'01
11:50 a.m.
REALLY! I had no idea that they'd so something so silly as dedicate a slot on
an otherwise modern (unlike the APPLE-][) backplane.
What's different about that slot? 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?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: SLOT 8 (was: ISA cards for free..
"SLOT 8" compatible IS NOT ABOUT 8 bit v 16
bit!
"SLOT 8" compatible is whether it will work in an IBM XT (not
compatibles) in slot #8 (the slot closest to the power supply).
In the REAL IBM XT (not necessarily compatibles), that slot is different
from the other 7.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
<A HREF= "http://www.xenosoft.com/dogears" >DogEars</A>
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> ...stands to reason, since to PC had no 16-bit slots.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric J. Korpela" <korpela(a)ssl.berkeley.edu>
> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: ISA cards for free..
>
>
> > > You mean that nobody wants a current-loop capable card? Zog!. The other
> > > feature of these cards (if it's the IBM card I think it is) is that
it's
> > > one of the few cards that will work in slot 8 of a real IBM PC/XT. It
can
> >
assert the right signal to enable the bus buffers on the motherboard.
>
> Actually after some point just about everything started being designed
> to be slot-8 compatible. I've got slot-8 compatible VGA cards....
>
> Eric