Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:34:01 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <12662.825442441@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:39:04 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227092058.2001B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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> Why am I aguing with everybody these days? Quite strange - still I have > to disagree. For quite some time VLB actually was the high speed > alternative to the ISA bus. So was EISA. The point is that we didn't need a VLB bus and we almost certainly didn't need PCI - we just needed to finish making EISA better (wider and faster) and we'd have then seen motherboards with 8 or more *entirely general purpose* slots, not this split bus crap we see now. The decision to kill EISA was a pure marketing one - nobody wanted people to keep their old boards since those were already sold. They wanted everyone to buy new and totally incompatible boards. Besides, anybody who's actually tried just to *plug a VLB board in* knows that VLB was the bus equivalent of the anti-christ. I have a VLB video card (#9) that I had to take the friggin' guide pin off of just because actually screwing it down would cause the board to pop back out of the socket, and my experience was hardly unique. I repeat: Feh. Jordan
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