From: "Rich Wilson ix" <rawilson AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "drdoslist" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: PCI vs ISA
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:38:27 -0500
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

I think this might be important. I use dr dos 7.02 and 7.03 interchangeably,
maybe because i can't tell the difference, on new and old PC's alike. new
pc's only offer pci slots, so my internal modems must be pci. i have never
been able to teach old dos applications, word perfect, Relay Gold, others)
to speak to pci modems. There seem to be several reasons, but is the OS
involved here? Even when I find a dos application that seems to invite me to
specify the interrupt and com port, in the end i am forced to an external
modem. where do i look for answers. Are certain recent vintage boxes or
motherboards or bios designs better than others? in the case of a recent
pentium iii compaq, heavy tweaking of the bios setups still seemed to offer
no answers.
thanks, rich w chicago.