> > > but we have no way of knowing what we
> > > would need next year.
> > 
> > My crystal ball says AGP will go away very soon.
> > My crystal ball says PCI will go away, but slower than AGP.  The
> > problem will be too few slots per board.  (Even worse than now.)
> > My crystal ball says PCIe will be good for several years.
> 
>       In Linux and BSD, _nothing_ ever goes away.

Not true, unfortunately,
Suse Linux dropped support for the Alpha awhile back.
FreeBSD is dropping support for the Alpha.

> Part of the mission is
> to run on the installed base.  A lot of that is PCI.  Some of it is ISA.

Surely you aren't suggesting building an ISA graphics card?
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