On 6 Jan 2001, at 20:55, Richard Menedetter wrote:
> RT> and the rest ISA slots?
> nope ... 'modern' Mainboards have usually 1 or 0 ISA slots.
I have a motherboard without ISA slots, but the Windows device
manager still says there's a pci2isa bridge, assumedly for the LPT,
COM, PS2 ports?
> older boards have had more than that, because many people had old ISA cards
> at home, and wanted to be able to use them.
> Now they think that they are obsolete.
PCI is far superior to ISA, you have the 33MHz bus speed of the
8.5MHz (max) ISA. As well the interrupts etc work better (from a
user's point of view, not sure about a programmer's) eg When at a
LAN party, one can copy files off a PCI network card without them
noticing, but ISA will interrupt the CPU too much, and they will get
uppity.
To make this back on topic, I had to go searching for the packet
driver for this network card, and it was listed under unix. But it was
a .com file and works with Arachne (DOS).
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