[rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:08:52PM -0800, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> [VLB] 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.

That's an excellent analogy, yes.

> I think the only other boards that I have seen
> employin the VLB standard were SCSI adapters....

I think I saw one or two other VLB boards, but they were few and far
between.  Mostly, yes, it was graphics boards and fast disk controllers.


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