Re: ELKS Networking

[David Murn]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jonathan Hall wrote:

> Most cards that don't need the 16-bit bus don't come as 16-bit cards
> with the exception of those cards that are specifically designed
> otherwise.

Actually, there's a reason for some coming as 16-bit.  That is simply
because they're capable of using IRQ > 7, or other extensions like that.
They still only use the 8-bit data bus though.  I proved this when I put a
1mb trident card into my XT.  The XT got it into 640x480x256, and was
capable of detecting/checking the full video memory.

Davey