Whats a reasonable collection?

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Thu Jun 28 15:25:25 2001

Zorro and ZorroII are Amiga busses. Turbochannel is a DEC bus for
their old MIPS decstations.

> >> > 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.
>
> --
> En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
>


-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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