From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 12:44:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA01448 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01425 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:44:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA14667 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:27:26 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA05585; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:17:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602272017.NAA05585@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:17:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: coredump@nervosa.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9868.825390172@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 26, 96 07:02:52 pm 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 > > At which there should have been NO PCI, it should have gone EISA -> > > EISA2, with speedup's on the EISA2 bus like they were with PCI. This way > > Yep. The EISA consortium, as Paul Vixie likes to say, rolled over > without a fight to PCI and this was a Damn Shame. One more iteration > on EISA and we'd have gotten a bus that worked AND had a reasonably > robust connector. Feh. EISA would have had to have changed significantly, and a lot of cards would have become useless as a result. Specifically, the per slot memory area was not fixed and not determinable without a real mode BIOS call. The other problem with EISA is that it was still possible to plug ISA cards in at all. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.