Building a new system....

[Jason Custer]

Go Kirk!
I love my dtlk, and would never abandon it.....even for a stinking pci card.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Building a new system....


> Actually, all of the system goes through wait states when accessing any
> bus. In order of speed we have the CPU, then memory bus, then PCI bus,
> then ISA bus. So yes, the ISA bus is noticably slower then any of the rest
> of the system. And yes the system must wait on it when an access occurs.
>
> PCI is much superior to the ISA bus, but it is totally unrealistic to say
> that it is unstable. You would have a hrad time selling that to all the
> people using machines that use an ISA bus (some of which have run
> continuously for years.
>
> Now I am with Buddy, that an ISA slot could be a good thing. I don't know
> of a lower cost speach synth then the internal Double Talk. Perhaps the
> tripple talk costs arround the same I don't know. And if a person owns a
> working double talk I really can't see justification to get a new synth
> all in the name of no ISA port. (And by the way often times serial an
> parellel ports are hung off the ISA bus even when there are no ISA slots
> made available. The chips for that are cheaper then making them PCI.)
>
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> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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