From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 09:30:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA06647 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:30:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06635 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:30:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA11194; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:24:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603061724.KAA11194@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Triton-II support... when? To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:24:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: lehey.pad@sni.de, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603060935.BAA03960@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Mar 6, 96 01:35:25 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. > > 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 :( Sounds like you need to contact Advanced Gravis for a PCI version. A PCI version could share a single interupt for all devices on the card... tempting, isn't it? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.