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.
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