Go Kirk! I love my dtlk, and would never abandon it.....even for a stinking pci card. J ----- Original Message ----- From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Building a new system.... > Actually, all of the system goes through wait states when accessing any > bus. In order of speed we have the CPU, then memory bus, then PCI bus, > then ISA bus. So yes, the ISA bus is noticably slower then any of the rest > of the system. And yes the system must wait on it when an access occurs. > > PCI is much superior to the ISA bus, but it is totally unrealistic to say > that it is unstable. You would have a hrad time selling that to all the > people using machines that use an ISA bus (some of which have run > continuously for years. > > Now I am with Buddy, that an ISA slot could be a good thing. I don't know > of a lower cost speach synth then the internal Double Talk. Perhaps the > tripple talk costs arround the same I don't know. And if a person owns a > working double talk I really can't see justification to get a new synth > all in the name of no ISA port. (And by the way often times serial an > parellel ports are hung off the ISA bus even when there are no ISA slots > made available. The chips for that are cheaper then making them PCI.) > > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
