Harold Hallikainen wrote: >On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:58:27 -0500 Bob Ammerman >writes: >> PCI is _much_ more complicated than ISA. >> >> I'd avoid this like a plague! >> > > And since ISA stuff is going away, we're stuck with expensive chipsets >or modules when we want to integrate a modem into our product... > Several people have bad-mouthed the idea, but what the heck is the big problem with interfacing the PIC with an "external" modem? They are more expensive than internal, and probably are "not" going to go away in the near future, but this sure sounds 100X easier to deal with than trying to tap an ISA or PCI bus edge connector. RS-232 channel plus 2 or 3 handshakes. ??????????????? - danM -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics