On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jinx wrote:

> > Overall, barring strong reasons to the contrary, I'd go with an 8-bit
> > ISA board.  Not glamorous, but effective.
> >
> > Dale
>
> ISA definitely seems to be the hobbyist's choice, PCI looks to be
> more used on the commercial side. As any of us that have tried out
> h/w projects like robotics know that speed isn't all that important.
> Convenience in this case is more desirable (and it gets rid of a
> pile of cables too)

Very true.  If I were starting a commercial product now, I'd pretty much
have to make it PCI unless the target market were very specialized and
using known or old hardware.  PCI looks like a real bear -- I'm really
glad I haven't had a killer PC card idea for quite a while now.

What I'm truly concerned about, though, is the impending loss of all
things serial and parallel other than USB.  This looks like a problem.  I
have yet to see s USB solution that's as simple as a MAX232 and an async
serial I/O driver, and doubt I will very soon.  On the other hand, USB
kind of eliminates the need for a power supply in most PIC_scale
products...  so maybe it's not ALL bad.

Dale

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