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to: JIM HOLSONBACK
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2002-12-14 20:06:14
subject: thinking about a new MB

JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> Hello, Roy.  I've just overheard you expressing your views to
 JH> Robert Sayre about - - -

 RS>  You and I don't care, but the motherboard manufacturers
 RS> probably do care. Guess what we end up with? No ISA.

 RJT> Not as long as I have a choice about it...!

 JH> Oh, have I missed something?  What new mainboard designs have come
 JH> out in the past 18 months or so which give you a choice of even a
 JH> _single_ ISA slot?

Beats me.

 JH> I think if we have any ISA choice left now, it will be running old 
 JH> ISA cards in old boards.

Yeah,  that's probably the choice I'm looking at...

It's cheaper,  anyhow!  :-)

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