Outlined the plot for a horror flick over yonder and wondered about checking facts with gang in this forum:


Was there any form of bus level expansion before the NeXTcube was released?

Re: SJ running the BigMac project in 1984 after 128K release, before he left Apple a year later.

Maybe, but it [Big Mac] would have been a MegaFlop. His vision for BigMac was as absurd as his overarching, Apple II abhorrent strategy for the Mac. He understood exactly what an expansion slot was, but his answer to suggestions for it were . . . misguided, shall we say? BigMac had no expansion capability in that form. Neither did the NeXT Computer that I know of? Pitted against SBus equipped, expansion oriented workstations, it was a miserable thing, no? NeXTcube with its NeXTbus backplane with five open slots fixed that. I wonder how difficult beating that through his reality exclusion memBRAIN was for the folks at NeXT? My Nightmare on Infinite Loop scenario would be his having never having left Apple. Out in the real world, he mostly learned examination of practical input and opened his mind to the possibilities of expansion . . . just a crack. So what was the answer tor his next Cube . . . no expansion capability. Click to expand...