Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:26:12 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Matt Edwards <insane1@geocities.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP PCI modem Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.981230102455.11992A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <19981230014504.A4749@tidalwave.net>
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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Lee Cremeans wrote:
> This is a PCI modem...and PCI modems are all WinModems at this point, though
> there's not really a good reason to be. The ISA PnP stuff won't gain you
> much here.
Perhaps I'm missing a technology theory here, but why take a fast(er)
bus architecture and put a device on it that wasn't ever close to
exceeding the old architecture?
Do PCI-only motherboards exist now? What's the point of filling a slot
with something that will do just fine on an {e,}isa slot?
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