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Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

>X-Comment-To: Denise L Yenko
>
>Hi!
>
>16-ζΕΧ-2002 16:43 dlyenko AT yahoo DOT com (Denise L Yenko) wrote to
>opendos AT delorie DOT com:
>
>******** Heavilly snipped **********
>
>
>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 ~