From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 30 13:18:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02262 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:18:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02256 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:18:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA153961572; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:26:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:26:12 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matt Edwards , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem In-Reply-To: <19981230014504.A4749@tidalwave.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Lee Cremeans wrote: > This is a PCI modem...and PCI modems are all WinModems at this point, though > there's not really a good reason to be. The ISA PnP stuff won't gain you > much here. Perhaps I'm missing a technology theory here, but why take a fast(er) bus architecture and put a device on it that wasn't ever close to exceeding the old architecture? Do PCI-only motherboards exist now? What's the point of filling a slot with something that will do just fine on an {e,}isa slot? - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message