On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 04:33:39PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote: > > 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. > > Actually there is a problem in the Windows/DOS world. A PCI card can not > pretend to be an ISA card so old DOS games will not work. Windows 98 includes > a ISA sound card emulator, I think, but this still means no sound in DOS games > not running under Windows. This matters to a Linux (only) user why? Note that there are for some of the PCI cards DOS TSRs that do the same thing. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Chalky> gcc is the best compressor ever ported to linux. it can turn 12MB of kernel source (and that's .debbed) into a 500k kernel
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