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To: Paul K who wrote (5496)	1/22/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: Paul K	Respond to of 14778

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To: Paul K who wrote (5496)	1/22/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

Uhh, am I off on my card/slot counting concerning my last post? Yes, ATX cases are seven slot cases. Some (many) ATX mobos have a shared PCI/ISA slot. You can only use one of the shared connectors. The max available slots in a standard ATX board is seven. Zeuspaul

To: Paul K who wrote (5496)	1/23/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Shared slots. To expand slightly on ZP's answer, they're shared exactly because they use the same case slot physically (and internally would interfere with each other physically because the components of ISA cards and PCI cards are on opposite sides of the board). My first PCI mobo did not have integrated serial/parallel/IDE controllers. There was a separate controller which plugged into the shared PCI slot for IDE with a tiny daughter card that plugged into the shared ISA slot for serial/parallel. Essentially the daughter card had only a cable connecting it to the PCI card, so it took almost no vertical space. Pretty clever. Mobo was a dog, though<g>.