Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Well, keyboard and mouse are USB these days, serial and parallel are PCI,
floppies are not used anymore and the ISA DMA controller would only be
Oh, how I wish this were true!
The pre-production machines I get (i.e. not even on the market yet) still have
floppy, serial, and PS/2 kbd/mouse.
You must be getting them from wrong vendors. ;-) How about switching to
a reasonable platform that doesn't imply DOS compatibility?
What's reasonable about a system without serial connectivity? Damn hard
to debug with a serial console without one. Yes you can get around it,
but it's one more issue to address. PS/2? I have enough KVM hardware in
place to make that non-sales point, and I bet that there are lots of
people with some fancy mouse, or keyboard, or game thingie, that it's
cheaper to keep the features than drop them. I don't know if the ATX
standard requires them, but low cost features are hard to drop.
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-bill davidsen ([email protected])
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last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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