From: andrem@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux)
Subject: Re: LCIII->PowerPC?
Reply-To: andrem@pyrtech.mis.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux)
Organization: Pyramid Technologies, Mt. View, California.
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In article <1qksuq$1tt8@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, mirsky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
(David Joshua Mirsky) writes:
|> Hi. I own an LCIII and I recently heard an interesting rumor.
|> I heard that the LCIII has a built in slot for a PowerPC chip.
|> Is this true? I heard that the slot is not the same as the PDS
|> slot.  Is that true?
|> 
|> Thanks
|> David Mirsky
|> mirsky@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Well, I also have an LC III.  Popping the top revealed:

	One "socket" for an additional VRAM SIMM

	One "socket" for a 72-pin RAM SIMM

	One socket for a flat-pack FPU

	A processor-direct slot (PDS) identical to the LC/LC II, but with
	an additional set of connetions to one side (for the full 32-bit
	data path that the LC/LC II lacked

That's it.  I guess a board with a PowerPC chip could be made that would fit
in the PDS, but that's the only place.

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