What's your coolest ISA card?( was Re: IBM 5150 PC)

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue Aug 7 16:52:22 2001

> >DPT SCSI cards also have historically used 680x0 CPUs---my PCI 2144UW has a
>>40 MHz 68040. I don't know if cards like this fall within your mandate.
>
>That's not fair! My CPU is only a 25 MHz '040, and you say that there are
>faster SCSI cards!?

        I used to feel the same way when I was running a TRS-80 Model
2000 and I'd see caching SCSI controllers that used the same 80186 as
a coprocessor on the board. There's something humbling about seeing
your main CPU relegated to coprocessor status!

        Jeff
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