-=> /* Quoting Lynn Nash to Frank Sexton */ <=-
 FS>Perhaps I should have used the phrase "accepted AT buss
 FS>standards" instead of official.
 LN> Where the conflict occurs is that COM ports are
 LN> generally considered to be 8 bit devices with designs
 LN> from way back to the original PC.
Knew that.
 LN> Another that raises its head sometimes is the fact
 LN> that memory on the  ISA bus must be accessed in 128K
 LN> increments. A mix of 8 and 16 bit cards that use close
 LN> menory addresses will fail.
Ouch... didn't know that.  Wonder if that explains why I
had such a hard time installing an 8-bit NIC into an IBM
PS/2 a number of years ago.  I finally found an address for
the NIC that worked.  But it took a while before I even
realized I had an address conflict.
 LN> Also mixing 8 bit mono cards with VGA in an attempt to
 LN> have dual monitors causes performance loss.
Didn't know that either.
Man... no wonder "100% compatibility" (with anything!) is
so hard to achieve.  :-)  I love those statements on boxes
that say that a "100% IBM compatible" computer is required.
Right!
-Frank
(fsexton@xpert.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton)
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