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Motherboards with ISA slots were made as recently as 2020 (Intel Coffee Lake): https://www.dfi.com/product/index/1502 https://www.dfi.com/product/index/1502 h
by soganess 1y ago
Motherboards with ISA slots were made as recently as 2020 (Intel Coffee Lake):
https://www.dfi.com/product/index/1502 https://www.dfi.com/product/index/1502
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/spectras-new-lga1151-motherboard-1992-pci-slots https://www.tomshardware.com/news/spectras-new-lga1151-mothe...
I realize that doesn't answer your question as to why someone would put an AWE card into a machine that modern, but hey, at least it is possible.
- M95D 1y agoThose boards are made of unobtainium.
- soganess 1y agoFair warning, I know nothing about these boards outside of their existence. But, 'from the hip', I'm guessing that they are just daisy chaining bridge chips (PCIe -> PCI -> ISA). ITE makes some PCI -> ISA bridges and I see big ITE logos on both. If one really wanted to use an ISA card, they could just buy a couple (rare, but noticeably more obtanium) risers with the relevant bridges on the riser to recreate the chain. I don't know if that mean missing out some fancy integration (for better compatibility) from the bios.