On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:44:06PM -0000, Robert Woodcock 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 USB > * Parallel ports USB > * AT keyboard ports Obsolete > * PS/2 ports USB => > 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. Indeed. Though I suspect it's possible that we'll see serial/parallel USB adapters or if not at least PCI versions of the things built on to the board. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <awkward> anyone around? <Flav> no, we're all irregular polygons
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