On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Erik Trulsson wrote:

ET> > ET> (There might also be some motherboard out there that has ISA-slots 
and 
ET> > ET> supports amd64-capable CPUs but one will have to look fairly hard to 
find 
ET> > ET> one.)
ET> > 
ET> > Oh, I would love to see at least a photo of such a beast ;-)
ET> 
ET> Turned out to Actually be surprisingly easy to find with Google. Take a 
good look:
ET> 
ET>   http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009/mb945.htmL
ET> 
ET> That motherboard supports modern Core2{Quad,Duo} CPUs and has an ISA-slot.

Yes, embedded/industrial needs are quite different from usual/casual; I totally 
forgot about these areas.

ET> > (As for my experience, the highest CPU on a mobo with [E]ISA slots were 
Intel 
ET> > Pentium, or similar AMD K6)
ET> 
ET> The most modern mainboard with an ISA-slot that I have actually held in my 
own
ET> hands supports dual Pentium-III (Socket 370) CPUs.
ET> 
ET> I know that there also exist mainboards for Pentium-4 (Socket 478) and
ET> Athlon (Socket A) CPUs that have ISA-slots.

Well, there avoid me; however, I vaguely remember i686 (aka PentiumPro[tm]) 
servers with EISA in our colleagues' office back in late 90's...

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 ma...@freebsd.org ]
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