Re: Device detection? [Summary]

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

Joseph Carter wrote:
>The only two components not PCI in new machines these days are internal
>modems and sound cards.

Those are the only things left that fit in those ISA slots, yes, but they're
not the only things left that are on the ISA bus. You've still got
trivialities like:

* Serial ports
* Parallel ports
* AT keyboard ports
* PS/2 ports

And probably a bunch of other things that will be crawling out of the
woodwork over the next few years. My bet on things is that the majority of
truly ISA-less x86 computers (the ones without any 640kb limit - think about
it!) will probably come with USB instead of those 4 things listed
above.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"I never knew manipulating the masses was so easy." -jt