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- From: tomw@orac.asd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Bus def's ==> Re: EISA vs. ISA (& VESA, VL-bus, Local bus)
- Date: 15 Dec 92 21:29:33
- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Lines: 19
- Message-ID: <TOMW.92Dec15212933@orac.asd.sgi.com>
- References: <1992Dec4.181624.25510@cis.ohio-state.edu> <TOMW.92Dec8223628@orac.asd.sgi.com>
- <1992Dec12.141205.302@global.hacktic.nl>
- Reply-To: tomw@asd.sgi.com
- NNTP-Posting-Host: orac.asd.sgi.com
- In-reply-to: peter@global.hacktic.nl's message of 12 Dec 92 14:12:05 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec12.141205.302@global.hacktic.nl>, peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- > tomw@orac.asd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein) writes:
-
- >>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?
-
- Actually, it turns out that the 4 cycles is abnormally long for good
- hardware. 3 is more normal, and some card/motherboard combinations can
- do it in 2 cycles. This gives you 5.33 MB/s average, and 8 MB/s best
- case. You might also be running your bus faster than 8 MHz.
-
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