On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 11:20:14PM +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. NT4.0 isn't really compatible with 3.5, much less with anything from Win3.x or Win95. Win98 and NT are more compatible because ... well because they want to kill off the old 16 bit market completely and move everyone to the (more expensive) NT platform. > > 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. Many people have tried that, you can get adapters for it real cheap even. They just never caught on. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "and i actually like debian 2.0 that much i completely revamped the default config of the linux systems our company sells and reinstalled any of the linux systems in the office and here at home.."
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