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To: rudedog who wrote (25918)	1/7/2000 3:10:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

OT: Yes dog, I understand what you're saying. I was more just harrassing twister about the abortive attempt at ISA cards with tack-on plug'n'play logic, and the BIOS modifications and administrative databases that accompanied them (or were supposed to). This is the scheme that was instigated and driven by M$FT, and those were the cards that went spinning into my trash can on several occasions. Now that the new busses have taken over, these cards are no longer really needed. Although as you point out, most motherboards still have ISA slots and they all still have 8042's and 8259-descendants and other relics of the 70's lurking in their chipsets. It's actually embarrassing. Apple shows Wintel up yet again. There's nothing worse than Apple operating software, but still they manage to build machines that ship with USB keyboard and mouse and no legacy garbage long before Wintel does. I've really been ticked off about NT power management. As far as I can see, there is absolutely no reason why NT couldn't have figured out how to turn off my monitor years ago. All it would have taken is a service pack and a fiat to video card makers to fix up their drivers. --QS