Mail Archives: opendos/2002/02/16/13:31:50
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
>X-Comment-To: Denise L Yenko
>
>Hi!
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>16-ζΕΧ-2002 16:43 dlyenko AT yahoo DOT com (Denise L Yenko) wrote to
>opendos AT delorie DOT com:
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>PS: About "compatability/open architecture issues". Try to find in any
>modern standard documents like PC97, PC99, PC2000, etc mention of ISA...
>Previously you say that worse, but open architecture wins in dispute with
>proprietary architecture.
>
>And where now ISA?
>
About 1.5 metres from where I sit. Admittedly, it also has EISA, PCI
and the new video slot. They are allocated, 2 of 8 ISA, 2 of 8 EISA, 4
of 8 PCI and the AGP slot up in an out of the way position. I have
sevceral other boxes that have *ONLY* ISA/EISA slots -- older 80x86
systems.
I have a bookshelf of (mainframe) manuals dating back to 1967 (PL1, BAL,
Fortran IV, JCL, COBOL, etc. as well as cartons of more modern manuals
for both PC-DOS and MS-DOS and various applications software, with piles
of documentation for all this crap.
Even now, most add-in cards, (extra serial or parallel, or game ports)
are still sold in the ISA format. They will fit, and operate equally
well in EISA slots.
I use a lot of older hardware, just because I hate to throw it (or give
it) away. That means I have hardware sitting around all the way back to
a 1960's paper tape punch/reader, a XEROX document system, 8" floppy
drives, an early lunch-box PC, and stacks of I/O cards, memory cards,
drive controllers, and so forth.
Although I like our (relatively) new system, I am a committed
command-line person, and of course am now playing around with Linux on
one of my other boxes.
I really don't want to turn this into a flame-fest, but I don't believe
you have made your point about the "inevitability" of that file format.
Again, I retire from this thread.
~ Denise ~
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