[rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Mon Mar 31 21:36:30 CST 2003


On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:54:27PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> the PC-based server market went with EISA, which pretty much nailed the
> coffin lid down on local bus.  OK, so it might be a slightly slower bus,
> but you could have as many 32-bit slots as you could afford.

I've heard that EISA was 32bit, but how did they do that while using the
same pin count as ISA16?  Or am I wrong in remebering that the two were
the same form factor?


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