Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Stuff Keywords: IIgs+? Message-ID: <3058@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 20 Sep 88 21:52:11 GMT References: <167@thelink.UUCP> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 11 In article <167@thelink.UUCP> oliver@thelink.UUCP (Joel Sumner) writes: >If Apple insists on having 8-bit/16-bit downward compatability, is there any >way to expand the data lines to the rest of the machine up to 32 data paths.. ... I'd hope that by the time a 65c832 machine comes out (//GSe+?) Apple will have standardized on NuBUS across their product line, in the spirit of encouraging peripheral sharing. 'old' Apple ][ bus cards could be accessed through some sort of repeater-to-external Apple ][ backplane arrangement. (Well, maybe I don't hope for that, but it would be a nice idea.) Each new machine since the Apple //e has had a 'special' expansion connector in addition to the regular Apple ][ bus.