ROBERT SAYRE wrote in a message to ANDY BALL:

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 a
AB> 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.

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

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