28 Jun
2001
28 Jun
'01
5:12 a.m.
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:
Iggy Drougge wrote:
> I hate to tell you this, but other buses such as
Zorro, PCI or Turbochannel
> aren't jumpered either, yet without the need for ADF files.
> ADF files are just jumpers on a disk.
Well, I never heard of Zorro, and I wouldn't know
Turbochannel if I saw
it. I suspect PCI doesn't use jumpers because most cards are, "Plug and
Play". Besides, PCI wasn't around when Microchannel was king of the
corporate world.
There's EISA. I thought it was an okay bus while maintaining backwards
compatibility with ISA. It'd have been more successful if it were
cheaper. As for other non-jumpered busses, Sun's Sbus is nice.
-brian.