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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD system
Date: 20 Apr 94 18:44:45 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <4902@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> boe@first.gmd.de (Bernd Oestmann) writes:

>dysonj@delphi.com (John Dyson) writes:
>> The BT545S ISA SCSI controller is good too, but EISA is THE way to go!!!!

>EISA is dead, PCI is *the* way to go ?!

Oh, really?  Tell that to all the Windoze NT non-Intel hardware
manufacturers such as the NCR/MIPS Magnum, DEC Alpha PC's, etc. which
all use the EISA bus.

Besides, current PCI chipsets are still quite buggy.  PCI has a way to
go yet.

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