From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 30 16:52:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25912 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25907 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:52:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00439; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812310048.QAA00439@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Bill Fumerola cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, "Louis A. Mamakos" , Matt Edwards , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:26:12 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:48:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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? 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message