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[arachne] Re: Upgrading Arachne
- From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:59:41 -0500
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:19:25 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 19:42:28 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
>> This leads to a rather interesting question - what is to be considered
>> "standard equipment", and who (or what) is reponsible for maintaining
>> compatibility with this standard?
> The responsibiity would rest with the manufacturer if they want to
> maintain compatability with any particuler standard. It's a free
> choice situation. Manufacturers can omit whatever they want and do.
> ISA slots were standard before, but new motherboards don't have
> them. ISA modems with jumpers used to be "standard" now they are
> hard to find and won't fit new motherboards anyway. And so on.
> It's certainly a problem for Arachne on new computers.
No, it isn't.
My current machine is a Pentium4 running at 1.7ghz
It has no ISA slots.
Modem is an ActionTec PCI 56k
NIC card is a LinkSys LNE100TX
Both are 100% DOS compatible and work perfectly with Arachne.
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