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Re: NeXTcube Turbo SIMM Slots

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From: M Carling
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:42
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In article <1992Apr9.011806.3281@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>  
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
> In article <1992Apr9.002147.5496@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
m@crito.Stanford.EDU (M Carling) writes:
> >Aside from the electrical reasons which I posted previously, you may be  
> >interested to know that the only difference between the Turbo slab  
board  
> >and the Turbo cube board is the NeXT Bus Interface Chip and three PALs.  
> 
> Seems like we infer from this that it would be similarly trivial to
> adapt the turbo *color* slab board into a cube CPU board, no?
> Something to pester NeXT about?

I did not intend to imply that it was trivial, only that it was a lot  
easier than designing a whole new board from scratch.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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