My good friend Jim said:
> Thus the
> system will come with ISA slots, but no devices using them.
> Obviously, the customer can add ISA devices. I believe in the
> short run this will actually be an advantage to hams because
> it will free up resources on the ISA bus like IRQs.
I wish that were true, but I fear the opposite. Already, most new
PC's and replacement (high end) motherboards come with maybe one
or two ISA slots. That's not *available* slots, but the sum total
of ISA slots in the machine. The rest of the slots, assuming a tower
or large deskptop (not a slimline) case, are PCI bus. Yes, you
have 5 or 6 PCI slots available and maybe an AGP slot for a graphics
card.
I wonder when LZ engineering is releasing the new PCI DVP board?
What Jim said about IRQ's however, is right on the money.
73, J.P. W2XX
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