Yes, but were there any unbuffered slots on the orignal PC?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
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 slot
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!
>
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Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 20:58:48 BST