Re: ECP port driver

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Shawn, Rob and all,

One of the reasons for this project is that SIMMs that the memory board was 
designed for are getting scarce.  Of course we could find them, but I like 
having everything in a system from a similar run.  It makes troubleshooting 
easier.  Along with the scarcity of the SIMMs, there is also the scarcity 
of PCs with ISA slots.  Then there is the problem that I don't understand 
why the Memory boards work at all.  Those of you that have Memory boards 
will notice tags on them that say something like "off by 1, works in 
system".  This means that when I read back what I wrote in the test mode, 
it comes back offset by one byte.

At the price of systems these days, it is just not worth rescuing an old 
486.  So I want to get away from the ISA slot.

Tom Droege

At 09:46 PM 9/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Average clock time was 32.6 seconds, and CPU utilization was solid at 91%.
>Although a 486 w/ Linux has generally been the agreed-upon platform for
>running the cameras, I don't think that an old Pentium like one I used would
>be much of a stretch for any budget today.  There isn't much price
>difference on EBay or the like for a 486 vs. an ancient Pentium.  And,
>Pentium motherboards generally accept DIMMs as opposed to the much-pricier
>SIMMs required by most (all?) 486s.
>
>Shawn