Whats a reasonable collection?

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Jun 28 15:17:55 2001

On 28 Jun 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Brian Chase skrev:

> > 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.

Do all EISA and MCA based systems require these? I don't seem to remember
having to deal with them on MCA based RS/6000 AIX systems, or say under
NetBSD/i386 for an old 80386 EISA box I have.

Is it possible that maybe the existence of .ADF and .INF files is just a
brain-damaged Microsoft OS requirement?

-brian.
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 15:17:55 BST