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Exactly. I bought my P3 a month or so ago, and it has a new Abit
state-of-the-art motherboard, having only one ISA slot, but some 5-6 PCI slots.
I'd like to keep the ISA slot for a phone modem, in case my external cable modem
breaks down.
Andy wrote:
> > I doubt that a PCI interface to a serial port would make any difference
> over
> > an ISA serial port. A standard 8MHz ISA bus speed is plenty for serial
> > communications. Even at 460800bps you're no where near maxing out the
> > bandwidth.
>
> The point may be that some motherboards have only 1 ISA slot and that may be
> taken up by another card. Most motherboards have either 1 or 2 ISA slots and
> 4 or 5 PCI slots. So, I can understand the desire for a PCI serial port if
> the ISA slot is already in use.
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