Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:10:49 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602012310.QAA21816@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199602012200.PAA13856@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199602010115.LAA20591@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199602012200.PAA13856@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> Actually, if you are in a board-building craze, how about a PCI-only > motherboard? > > 6 (or more) PCI slots > No frigging ISA slots. .... > I'd probably throw multiport serial and/or ethernet cards in the 6 > PCI slots. 8-). I don't think such a thing exists. A PCI-slot has one and only one IRQ associated with it, so you generally don't have multi-port PCI cards, hence the reason for having ISA slots (+ backward's compatability). I remember having this conversation with Rod a while back. Nate
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