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- Path: sparky!uunet!polstra!jdp
- From: jdp@polstra.UUCP (John Polstra)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Avoiding the "8/16 Bit Problem"
- Message-ID: <18392@polstra.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 04:40:43 GMT
- Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA
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- I'm trying to avoid any risk of the infamous "8 vs. 16-bit problem" by
- putting together a system that has only 16-bit cards.
-
- [To those of you who don't know (not that I'm any expert on the subject),
- there is a potential problem in an ISA machine when you have both an
- 8-bit and a 16-bit card in the same 128K block of the address space.]
-
- My question is, are the following cards 8-bit or 16-bit?
-
- Orchid ProDesigner IIs video controller
- BusTek 542 SCSI controller (an Adaptec 1542 clone)
-
- Thanks.
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- John Polstra polstra!jdp@uunet.uu.net
- Polstra & Co., Inc. ...!uunet!polstra!jdp
- Seattle, Washington USA (206) 932-6482
- "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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