On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:35:41AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Dale Amon]
> > Virtualy every machine I have here (other the he laptop and
> > NeXT's) uses ISA. My primary workstation uses an ISA
> > SCSI card. My firewall and firewall test machines are all ISA.
> >
> > ISA is going to be around for a very long time to come
> > yet.
>
> Patches accepted. :)
I only wish I could spend the time on it. It's not for
myself in any case as I don't use installers anymore. Just
debootstrap, NFSroot and rsync. Takes too long to install
on a 16M RAM 486dx otherwise ;-)
> I suspect it is only possibly to reliably detect ISA PnP cards, and
> that might not be too easy. The others are impossible to reliably
> detect.
What worries me is the inherent bias towards the
mass market and competing with MS. While that is
well and good and worth applauding, Debian has
long been a main stay for those less well endowed
with the latest and greatest devices. Schools all
over the world for one. Places where income is
such that updating a working donated box that is
a decade old is just not possible.
Perhaps after Beta-1 some of those people most
affected by it will raise the cry and maybe somone
among them will have the time to do it.
I do think it matters.
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