#MARS, anyone?
16-Feb-95 01:27:28
Sb: #153379-#MARS, anyone?
Fm: John Schmidt 71242,2366
To: Scott Lawrence 73203,2045
Scott,
>> Also, why not PCI?
I'll give you my take on this. Running an MPEG file off the hard disk just
doesn't require that kind of throughput, so making it available on ISA makes it
accessible to everyone. Using PCI would be like putting 400 horsepower in a car
that will never go faster than 50 mph. It's a lot of expense and complexity
that has no real usefulness. 'Probably the same reason they don't make modems
for PCI slots; they just can't make any use of the additional throughput.
John