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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hacktic!utopia!global!peter
- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Bus def's ==> Re: EISA vs. ISA (& VESA, VL-bus, Local bus)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.141205.302@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 14:12:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec4.181624.25510@cis.ohio-state.edu> <TOMW.92Dec8223628@orac.asd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Global Village 1
- Lines: 10
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- tomw@orac.asd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein) writes:
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- >This is right. A lot of people run their ISA bus at 10 MHz. Some even
- >run it as fast as 16. There are some cards that don't work right for
- >anything faster than 8, though. A transaction takes 4 cycles, which
- >means you get a maximum throughput of 4 MB/s (8Mhz * 2 bytes / 4).
-
- Hmmm, the VIDSPEED benchmark says that my video card does 6.4M/s. That is
- significantly more than 4... How come?
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