From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 01:39:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA01028 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 01:39:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA01007 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 01:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA22324 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:39:24 +0100 Message-Id: <199603060939.KAA22324@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: Triton-II support... when? To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 10:35:58 MET From: Greg Lehey Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <199603060935.BAA03960@rah.star-gate.com>; from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Mar 06, 96 1:35 am X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >>>> Greg Lehey said: >> > Who uses ISA cards? >> >> How many people have really 0 ISA boards in their machine? >> Considering that ISA places such a load on the bus, it seems a good >> idea to me. >> > > Oh, don't pay attention to Terry's complete dislike for ISA cards. Well, I don't like them either. I was just curious about how many people had got round to running systems with none. I have a Triton on my BSDI box, and once I get the latest X server and a new SCSI controller, I'll be left with just an ISA Ethernet board, but I just can't see any reason to change that. > Darn, I just figured out that with a Triton II chipset and USB > Universal Serial Bus ( http://www.intel.com/IAL/pccomm/index.htm) > the only thing that I would have on a ISA slot is my GUS PnP :( There we go. Looks like ISA is not long for this Earth. Greg