Where is ISA bus in latest PC?

[neelix]

I always thought COM ports and parallel port are connected to ISA bus. But, in newer Intel Chipsets, ISA seems to be gone. I do understand external ISA expansion slots are gone, but how about internal ISA? Or how COM ports are connected to CPU in those chipsets? (I know it's generally referred to as south bridge?)

 

[Comp625]

In general context, the ISA bus is out of date. Alot of today's newer hardware is PCI.

I'll take a guess at your Southbridge comment. I'd say they probably found a way to route the COM data through somewhere else bypassing the ISA bus. Hey technology advances.

 

[VBboy]

Leutenant.. ISA is.. obsolete.

Man, I remember all those jumpers you had to set on non-PnP ISA cards... Damn, boy!
More power to PCI.

 

[JohnnyPC]

Foof! Those jumpers were a killer...love the PNP...all the newbs have it soooo easy!