[plug]ISA Jumpers

[navarre at plug.linux.org.au]

<Snip>
  Anybody else miss the old ISA cards where you used
> jumpers to set it to what you want?  No confusion that way.  You tell the
> computer how you want it, not the other way round.

>  - Matt

Yes - I do. There was a time you could pull a new network card out of the 
box, move the IRQ jumper to position 10, change the port to 230 and know 
that the IPX.COM driver would see the NIC, load NETX.COM and be a 
connected part of the network all in one go. That took about 7 minutes 
from walking to the machine to walking away, no reboots, the three 
required files IPX.COM, NETX.COM and NET.CFG would fit on one 360K floppy 
disk. Ah, them was the days when sys admin life was controllable. Now 
just a memory.

PCI, pugg and prey BIOS's and Winblows have taken it all away.

Navarre