Today's embedded applications target the PC architecture that users have accepted beyond anyone's wildest dreams for both business and personal use. This is a wide-open target, supported by a vast ...

The early days of home computing were quite a jungle of different standards and convoluted solutions to make one piece of hardware work on as many different platforms as possible. IBM’s PC was an ...

CompactPCI has become popular lately. But for all its mechanical and electrical features, including hot-swap, vertical seating and good cooling characteristics, it's not a good choice for many ...

From what i know, an adapter that converts an ISA card to a PCI wouldn't work very well. PCI has 4 physical interrupt pins (INT A,B,C,D) that can be used in different ...

After [Andy]’s discovery of an old ISA soundcard at his parents’ place that once was inside the family PC, the onset of a wave of nostalgia for those old-school sounds drove him off the deep end. This ...