Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:58:44 -0800 (PST) From: invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960228135755.20944D-100000@nervosa.com> In-Reply-To: <12662.825442441@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > So was EISA. The point is that we didn't need a VLB bus and we almost > certainly didn't need PCI - we just needed to finish making EISA > better (wider and faster) and we'd have then seen motherboards with 8 > or more *entirely general purpose* slots, not this split bus crap we > see now. The decision to kill EISA was a pure marketing one - nobody > Jordan Exactly. It's just very discouraging to have to know that nothing it consistent and you basically have to kludge everything on the ibm pc platform. == Chris Layne ============================================================== == coredump@nervosa.com ================= http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==
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