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Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by tjoff on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:55AM (#25313216)
USB to ISA adapters do exist. I'm sure there are compatibility edge-cases but not sure a P4 would be perfectly safe from that either.

http://arstech.com/install/ecom-prodshow/usb2isa.html

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Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by voxadam on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:22AM (#25314012)
The problem with such adapters is that being USB based they're timing is far from deterministic. One very common use case for ISA based interfaces is industrial automation where realtime determinism is very common requirement.
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Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by beagle3 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:04AM (#25314626)
Doesn’t usb support isochronous scheduling? It did for v1.0
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