I tend to agree.  Intel, however, seems to be in favor of eliminating the
ISA bus.  I spoke to an engineer there who told me that they were working on
motherboards that used only PCI slots.  I assume that they intended to use
some sort of external modem, perhaps a USB device.  I suppose that one of
those DSP modem/sound card units could be an alternative on the PCI bus, but
after dealing with IBM M-Wave devices, that would be a headache of
tremendous proportions, I think.

Drew Dunn
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Chan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] PCI Modems


>On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:14:41 -0500, Dennis Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>The only modems that I've installed have been modems designed for ISA
>>slots.  Are there any modems available for PCI slots?
>
>I can't see any reason to use such a high speed bus for a such
>relatively low throughput device.
>
>
> Michael
>