Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:48:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Matt Edwards <insane1@geocities.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem Message-ID: <199812310048.QAA00439@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:26:12 EST." <Pine.HPP.3.96.981230102455.11992A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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> 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?
Because the old bus is going away, and (if you do it right) putting it
on the new bus places *less* load on the CPU.
> 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?
The PC98 spec from Microsoft mandates the nonexistence of ISA for
compliance.
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