Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:33:47 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <4615410B.306@vidican.com> In-Reply-To: <20070405181037.GA60588@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <86zm5nrllc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070405181037.GA60588@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > >> "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? >>> >> No. Modern i386 and amd64 still have an ISA bus, and devices >> connected to that bus, even if they don't have ISA slots. >> > > And even if that was not the case there are still lots of > not-quite-as-modern i386 systems that are perfectly suitable for > running FreeBSD 7.x that *do* have ISA-slots. (ISA-slots were still > often included on motherboards as late as the Pentium III/AMD Athlon era.) > > > > > Lest we forget passive backplane/SBC/industrial computer setups which use an ISA bus. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/
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