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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Subject: Re: XGA-2 Clarification
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.160935.1073@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec18.063416.3786@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <pathak-181292115317@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:09:35 GMT
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- In article <pathak-181292115317@virtual.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.063416.3786@ultb.isc.rit.edu>,
- >jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu wrote:
- >>
- >> For those of you who I misled...
- >> The ISA XGA-2 board will cost $499
- >>
- >> The MCA XGA-2 board will cost $399.
- >>
- >> If you can justify why a 32-bit card costs LESS than a 16-bit,
- >> you will have my compliments, as well as the rest of the Microelectronics
- >> Department here....
- >>
- >> The cost difference is due to IBM, not Radius.
- >
- >Not necessarily. The cost difference may be due to the bus master
- >technology for the ISA bus. Remember, the Microchannel bus DIRECTLY
- >supports bus mastering. I didn't even think that bus mastering was
- >possible on the ISA bus but it looks like Radius figured out how to do it.
- >I suspect part of the cost may be related to this.
-
- Bus mastering *is* possible on the ISA bus. The Adaptec 154X SCSI
- controllers have been doing it for years (there are PLENTY other
- cards that do it too, but I can't even begin to list them all).
- And the 1542B just cost me $251, mail order.
-
- Jeff
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