For a company it is not much money compared to the heaps they save
by not having to emply a bunch of engineers that do nothing then
writing and maintianing drivers for dozends of OSes. It just turns into
one driver per device.
> That's a good point. When MCA was released everyone in the industry
> agreed that the ISA bus was inadequate. EISA wasn't much better and it had
> no more compatibility than MCA (systems were produced with both ISA and MCA
> buses).
Not true. EISA was a compatible extension to the ISA bus. You could always
plug ISA cards into EISA slots.
You can still get a lot of EISA cards and also motherboards with EISA
and PCI slots.
Mike