THX, on both counts!
Dunno, that 6400/PCI thread is waaaay over my head . . . 8-o . . . which is basically analog . . . the wetware upgrades to digital topped out somewhere between the TTL era and the late NuBus/PDS Architecture Days. :-/
I'm a hardware guy who dabbles in software when he has no other choice. I've enlisted, begged for and even paid for or partnered in business to cover that end of the computer spectrum!
If it's as simple as making a Custom PCB prototype, building or machining new case parts and noodling out I/O sneakarounds, then I'm you guy. My favorite notion was to hijack the parity traces on the IIfx MoBo as additional memory select lines/bits to increase its addressable memory space. That would entail using newer memory formats on a custom IIfx memory SIMM/DIMM adapter card and most likely a Virtual Memory scheme like the 32MB SE Accelerators back in the day. Nobody jumped in to figure out if it was doable from the firmware/software end of things . . . but . . . nobody ever called it an EVIL MEMORY HACK or RFI transmission scheme . . . even over on 'fritter! [
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If I thought it was possible and that I could swing it, my 6360 would have had a new 3 slot riser and a taller case YEARS ago! }
p.s. when Apple decided to intentionally hobble its low-mid end machines, they usually did a pretty good job of it . . . in my experience anyway.
Dunno, that 6400/PCI thread is waaaay over my head . . . 8-o . . . which is basically analog . . . the wetware upgrades to digital topped out somewhere between the TTL era and the late NuBus/PDS Architecture Days. :-/
I'm a hardware guy who dabbles in software when he has no other choice. I've enlisted, begged for and even paid for or partnered in business to cover that end of the computer spectrum!
If it's as simple as making a Custom PCB prototype, building or machining new case parts and noodling out I/O sneakarounds, then I'm you guy. My favorite notion was to hijack the parity traces on the IIfx MoBo as additional memory select lines/bits to increase its addressable memory space. That would entail using newer memory formats on a custom IIfx memory SIMM/DIMM adapter card and most likely a Virtual Memory scheme like the 32MB SE Accelerators back in the day. Nobody jumped in to figure out if it was doable from the firmware/software end of things . . . but . . . nobody ever called it an EVIL MEMORY HACK or RFI transmission scheme . . . even over on 'fritter! [
] ]'>If I thought it was possible and that I could swing it, my 6360 would have had a new 3 slot riser and a taller case YEARS ago! }
p.s. when Apple decided to intentionally hobble its low-mid end machines, they usually did a pretty good job of it . . . in my experience anyway.