Brian Chase skrev:
>On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:
>> Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> > I hate to tell you this, but other buses such as Zorro, PCI or
>> > Turbochannel aren't jumpered either, yet without the need for ADF files.
>> > ADF files are just jumpers on a disk.
>> Well, I never heard of Zorro, and I wouldn't know Turbochannel if I saw
>> it. I suspect PCI doesn't use jumpers because most cards are, "Plug and
>> Play". Besides, PCI wasn't around when Microchannel was king of the
>> corporate world.
>There's EISA. I thought it was an okay bus while maintaining backwards
>compatibility with ISA. It'd have been more successful if it were
>cheaper. As for other non-jumpered busses, Sun's Sbus is nice.
EISA is similar to MCA, it's got the same descriptor files, only they're
called INF instead of ADF.
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