Andrew George wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, tom strickland wrote:
> > >tom....tell him to buy an external serial modem (not usb).
> >
> > No! Soon it will be difficult to buy motherboards with ISA slots. No ISA
> > slot -> no ISA bus -> no serial port.
> 
> Where does that come from? I've seen motherboards with only PCI and AGP
> slots that had serial ports

I concur. I would even say that I personally NEVER saw ANY
motherboard (with or without ISA) without not one but TWO 
serial ports (which are usually built into the southbridge
chip anyway).


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