OT: A call to arms (sort of)

From: Max Eskin <max82_at_surfree.com>
Date: Mon Jul 5 05:50:03 1999

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>>From what I understand, those will all be irrelevant by year's end, as the
>evolving standard for PC2000 will have NO expansion slots at all. There are
>already plenty with no ISA slots. My GPIB hardware is NI, and I had to
>build my own parallel I/O hardware.

Well, it's always possible to make an external USB->GPIB adapter. Of
course, you'd be forced to use an OS which supports USB, and that
eliminates DOS and various other small operating systems (which might be
preferrable in many situations).

--Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
  http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
Received on Mon Jul 05 1999 - 05:50:03 BST

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