wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three) (07/03/89)
Why not use the Model 4 cabinet for the system? Not enough room for all the potential cards/options? Or ar we just straying from the holy path of righteous keyboard oneness with the CPU? -- Marcus
gmadison@pnet02.cts.com (George Madison) (07/04/89)
wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three) writes: > >Why not use the Model 4 cabinet for the system? Not enough room for all the >potential cards/options? > >Or ar we just straying from the holy path of righteous keyboard oneness with >the CPU? > A little of both, actually. Many people would like a standard Selectric layout keyboard (I know that I have trouble when I have to switch between my Model 4 and virtually anything else.) There are lots of inexpensive, good quality PC-clone keyboards out there..... Also, one of the existing 4's problems is a lack of expansion capacity. One card edge, and that's it, pretty much. Why design a system with the same flaws if you can help it? Especially when, given the power of the Z-280, people might want to/be able to afford to add various amounts of RAM; on the original 4, it was pretty simple to have all the ram expansion on the motherboard; this would not be so easy to do if you wanted to support the Z-280's entire 16MB address space...... |George Madison, a/k/a George The Bear Cub, a/k/a Furr ** BEAR POWER **| |INET: gmadison@pnet02.cts.com 8-{)> ames!elroy!pnet02.cts.com!gmadison| |GEnie: GEORGE.M Arctophiles & Barbophiles Unite! PLink: BEARDLOVER| "Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?" -- Elayne Boosler