ISA and derivitive non-PCs (was PCs that support only one floppy drive in H/W)

[Ethan Dicks]

On 10/11/05, compoobah at valleyimplants.com <compoobah at valleyimplants.com> wrote:
> In the almost-UNIX front, Apollo workstations were ISA based.
>
>  SGI Indigo2 and some HP-9000 PA-RISC desktops run EISA, with the unrealized hope (same as PCI, really) that more hardware would work with them. Few companies wrote drivers, though

Around 1993/1994, I had an evaluation board for one of the 3D VR
tracker devices and was _supposed_ to write a driver for the Indigo2,
but the deal to borrow the Indigo2 fell through and I never did the
driver (and the vendor _did_ ask for the board back).

:-(

-ethan