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- From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
- Subject: Re: Local Bus vs. ISA / EISA (compatibility of drivers)
- In-Reply-To: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:29:00 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.082900.13886@autelca.ascom.ch>
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- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:35:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.133546.18910@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- >Now my question is, can I use the same driver for a certain board regardless
- >whether the board is installed in one of the local bus slots or in the
- >regular ISA resp. EISA slot ?
- >Or, in other words, do I need a certain driver for the local bus board and
- >a different one for the ISA-bus board ?
-
- To my knownledge it makes no difference whether it runs on local bus
- or not. It's just a transparent HW thing.
-
- But few few comments to this topic:
-
- a) There is no STANDARD local bus yet. Thus you might run into trouble
- with compatibility problems later.
-
- b) If you intend to go for GUIs anyway I strongly would recommend you
- to get an intelligent graphics board like a ATI Ultra or a S3 based
- board. They really make more difference than a local bus. And also
- there are now S3 boards avaialbe the make use of the EISA bus.
-
- - Thomas
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