From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 11:35:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA16189 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:35:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA16171 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA13134; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:30:59 -0800 (PST) To: Jake Hamby cc: Narvi , Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:04:56 PST." Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:30:59 -0800 Message-ID: <13132.825449459@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Speaking of marketing, EISA was always positioned as the high-end board > for SERVERS, so both the motherboard and cards were always more > expensive. Only a few high-end desktop machines (e.g. Compaq, which I Well, yes, but that was true really only at the very beginning, when Mylex was king (I know, I had one of their MBs). It wasn't too much longer until you could get a number of clone EISA MBs (and cheaper SCSI controllers) that made EISA very attractive - 2 of my 486 machines are EISA. > system, I didn't have to rock them back and forth or hear (beep-beep > beep-beep-beep-beep) from my AMI BIOS when they weren't plugged in all > the way! :-) :-) Actually, I felt like an idiot when a MAC user, of all I'm just glad that #9 put that little LED on their VLB card that lit up red when it wasn't happy - now I wonder why they did that? :-) > Well, what they should've done is fix the Zorro bus in the Amiga, and > then things would've been perfect. They had AutoConfig since 1986, > man... ;-) I gave my A2500 away last year to someone who actually had the time to use it.. :-) Jordan