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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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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