From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 16:19:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA29140 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:19:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29134 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA09363; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:09:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602290009.RAA09363@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... To: coredump@nervosa.com (invalid opcode) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:09:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "invalid opcode" at Feb 28, 96 02:00:48 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 > > EISA would have had to have changed significantly, and a lot of cards > > Terry Lambert > > Well don't you think it's a pretty damn significant change from ISA, EISA > -> PCI ? I thought it was a pretty significant change from Apple II card form factor to XT form factor. I thought it was a pretty significant change from XT 8-bit to AT 16 bit. If that isn't enough, I thought it was pretty significant when people started distributing on 1.2M floppies when the drives weren't all over, then from 1.2M 5 1/4 to 1.44M 3 1/2, and now to CDROM. What is the average computer life expectancy in a small business (50% of the number of computers in business are in small businesses)? It has been estimated at 2-4 years. The question is whether a short term loss is worth a long term gain. Don't forget that the new Apple PPC machines are "pure PCI" boxes. Hell, I thought coding for more than 8K of memory was a significant change! 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.