salarua@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 eraarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down112
arrow-up1122arrow-down1external-link$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 eraarstechnica.comsalarua@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoThat will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoalso most of those USB adapters likely won’t support true hardware switch interrupts, Direct Memory Access, or raw bus control to talk to other cards, which almost every special ISA card actually needs at least one of these to function.
That will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.
also most of those USB adapters likely won’t support true hardware switch interrupts, Direct Memory Access, or raw bus control to talk to other cards, which almost every special ISA card actually needs at least one of these to function.