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- From: jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (John David Regehr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Bus def's ==> Re: EISA vs. ISA (& VESA, VL-bus, Local bus)
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 16:37:57 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- >Close. It runs at UP TO 33 MHz (I've been told the actual spec goes
- >up to 40 MHz, but there are no 40 Mhz VL systems out there yet because
- >there aren't any 40 MHz CPUs except for the AMD 386. The VL bus will,
- >obviously run at the speed of the CPU. If the CPU is a 25 MHz part,
- >the VL bus slots will run at 25 MHz (not 33 MHz). I'm not sure what
- >happens if the CPU is a 50 MHz part, either.
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- I believe that the spec goes up to 50 Mhz, but anything over 33 Mhz has
- to be built into the motherboard.
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- - John
-
- >"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- > in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- >Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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