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Interesting.

I suspect if Apple had done this they would have had someway for the cards to auto-negotiate.

A few years after the Jonathan prototype, I remember fighting with the DIP switches on PC ISA cards and setting the the correct IRQs, and then seeing a friend drop in a NUBUS card into their Macintosh II and the hardware was magically configured. I wonder if NUBUS could have multiple masters?




Apple II cards knew which slot they were in and could have small ROMs with simple IO functions.




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