Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:17:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: coredump@nervosa.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <199602272017.NAA05585@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9868.825390172@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 26, 96 07:02:52 pm
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> > At which there should have been NO PCI, it should have gone EISA -> > > EISA2, with speedup's on the EISA2 bus like they were with PCI. This way > > Yep. The EISA consortium, as Paul Vixie likes to say, rolled over > without a fight to PCI and this was a Damn Shame. One more iteration > on EISA and we'd have gotten a bus that worked AND had a reasonably > robust connector. Feh. EISA would have had to have changed significantly, and a lot of cards would have become useless as a result. Specifically, the per slot memory area was not fixed and not determinable without a real mode BIOS call. The other problem with EISA is that it was still possible to plug ISA cards in at all. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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