Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:30:59 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <13132.825449459@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:04:56 PST." <Pine.AUX.3.91.960227095437.19218C-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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> 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... <Amiga bitterness mode off..> ;-) I gave my A2500 away last year to someone who actually had the time to use it.. :-) Jordan
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