[rescue] Re: Vesa Local Bus video cards

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Mon Mar 31 21:56:00 CST 2003


On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:52:58PM +1200, Gavin Hubbard wrote:

> Incidentally I've seen early Pentium systems (60 & 66MHz) with VLB but no
> PCI. I've seen early Pentium motherboards with both VLB and PCI. I've even
> seen some 486 motherboards with PCI. No hard & fast rules it seems.

Gateway in particular sold a lot of PCI dx2/66s.  However, my recal was
that by the time a tried one, a lot of PCI cards refused to work because
of progressing PCI standards (PCI 1.0 instead of 2.1 I guess).


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