On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> And of course, there will be a huge amount of false positives, because
> all the new chipsets have an ISA bridge built into the southbridge chip
> and it is there even when no ISA slots are present.
A false positive is less painful than a false negative. Then if a system
has a PCI-ISA bridge, it's surely for purpose there (otherwise what is the
justification for the additional cost of unused silicon?). Maybe for an
on-board ISA serial or parallel port or an ISA floppy controller...
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