On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:52:58AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 06:50:11PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > These are probably all we really need do. It's been argued (see above > > > reference to irc) that if people have legacy hardware they know about it. > > > > Seems reasonable. Microsoft's Network PC specs indicate that such a PC > > may not even have any ISA slots. It's unusual of Microsoft to break > > backwards compatibility. > > That's a joke I hope... No, not really. 95 is unreliable and generally not very good because they went to a lot of trouble to keep DOS compatibility. NT is better because they threw that away, along with any direct hardware access for user-mode programs. > We've very close to an ISA-free system now, that is the trend in design. > The only two components not PCI in new machines these days are internal > modems and sound cards. The sound cards are becoming PCI now too since > it's been discovered that not only is a PCI sound card typically better > than the equivalent ISA type, they're also cheaper to make. > > Waiting for PCI modems to catch on now. I would prefer PCMCIA on the desktop, for modems and network cards. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
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