From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 04:27:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA16732 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 04:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from wa3ymh.transsys.com (#6@wa3ymh.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA16727 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 04:27:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from wa3ymh.transsys.com (#6@localhost.TransSys.COM [127.0.0.1]) by wa3ymh.transsys.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA01394; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:25:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199603061225.HAA01394@wa3ymh.transsys.com> To: Greg Lehey cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.), hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD) From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Triton-II support... when? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 10:35:58 +0700." <199603060939.KAA22324@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 07:25:24 -0500 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 :( I'm in the same boat here too. The only thing on the ISA bus is the GUS sound board; 3 of 4 PCI slots have ethernet, video and SCSI controllers in therem. PCI is better plug-n-plan than ISA P-n-P is.. louie