Re: Device detection? [Summary]
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:44:06PM -0000, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> > 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
>
> Why are these necessarily related to the ISA bus? I've got all kinds of
> MIPS and Sparc machines with serial/parallel ports, and I don't _think_
> they have an ISA bus.
This discussion is in the context of the PC architecture.
Jules
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