[rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards

[Kevin]

This is how i remember it.  The "AGP" for the early to
mid 90s.  Developed primarily for graphics adapters and
later picked up by others who needed more bandwidth.  I
had several IDE controllers as well as  SCSI
adpaters that used it.

/KRM

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:08:52 -0800 (PST)
Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez <lefa at ucsc.edu> wrote:

> I think EISA came before VLB, VLB was never inteded
> to replace EISA, in fact I have seen EISA/VLB
> motherboards. It was just a way of having a fast pipe
> to graphics boards, since both EISA and ISA could
> choke with some of the datarates needed for full
> resolution 24bit imaginery. Think of the VLB as the
> yesteryear's AGP. I think the only other boards that
> I have seen employin the VLB standard were SCSI
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