Multifunction (was: Re: IBM 5161

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Apr 2 19:27:00 2003

> >Because they occupied an entire slot (out of 5 on the PC), and other
> >companies sold "multifunction" cards that could use the same slot for
> >serial, parallel, clock, and memory. Most of those were marketed as SIX
> >functions - how many people remember what the other two functions were?

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Kevin Handy wrote:
> floppy, game port

floppy was quite rare on multifunction cards (until quite a bit later)
game port was fairly common.

But on a lot of "multifunction" cards (such as AST, Quadram, etc.),
options 5 and 6 were:
print spooling software, and ramdisk software!
Received on Wed Apr 02 2003 - 19:27:00 BST