mrau wrote:Jo22 wrote:So that would pretty much include any post-486 machine ? 😉
🤣 why? i had a 500mhz machine with a working isa slot
Yeah, but it wasn't "real" as in native. 😁
If it was 100% real, it would have been connected to the front side bus of a 286 processor.
Or at least directly to the chipset in case of later processor generations (386/486).
Pentiums usually push ISA through the whole PCI conglomerate.
Anyway, never mind! 😀 I was just nitpicking here..
In pratice, ISA on an older Pentium works as good most of the time
(for example, on-boardl stuff still runs via Super I/O instead of LPC bus, etc).
In fact, I once ran an old 8bit tape controller card on a Pentium 166 to rescue data
off of my father's old QIC tapes.
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