15 Oct 2002, 22:56, ROBERT SAYRE (1:123/140), wrote to ANDY BALL:

Hi ROBERT.

 RS>> I thought I read that MS mandates there be NO ISA
 RS>> slots for a motherboard to receive MS certification.

 AB>>  The machines I'm looking at have a single PCI slot, no ISA ones.
 AB>> That said, I have no interest in what Microsoft say should be on 
 AB>> a mainboard (I won't be running their software on it anyway).

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

Know why?  Intel refuses to make more IRQs.  Can't afford to have one for
each slot, and ISA slots can't share IRQs.  PCI slots DO share IRQs, and
that helps Miscosoft get all the bloat working, but often with having to
swap PCI cards to different slots.  


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)