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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Triton-II support... when?
To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:06:07 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603060939.KAA22324@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 6, 96 10:35:58 am
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> >> > 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.

I have two machines with no ISA cards, one EISA/ISA and one PCI/ISA.

Other than the idiotic EISA inability to probe the amount of per
slot configuration memory, and the annoying fact that one has to
run DOS to run the pukey EISA configuration utility, both are
happily ISA free and fully capable of non-invasive software
probing for all devices.  8-).

> > 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 :(
> 
> There we go.  Looks like ISA is not long for this Earth.

Amancio said 'Darn' because he's sad to see it go.  He must be a
machine configuration consultant on the side.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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