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- From: aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki)
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- Subject: Re: EISA/VL-Bus combination MBs #2
- Date: 19 Dec 92 00:23:31
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- In-reply-to: goyal@utdallas.edu's message of Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:00:56 GMT
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- Hello all,
-
- >>What's the difference between unbuffered and buffered?
-
- How can I describe it? The bufferd design has buffering devices
- between CPU buses and VL-devices.(to boost bus driving capacity)
-
- >>Does one offer better performance, or are they the same, and a
- >>buffered design simply lets you add one more device to a 33mhz
- >>system?
-
- I don't know it. probably depending on an implimentation.
- Does any unix wizards can explain the defference?
-
- In my opinion, a VL-bus gives better performance for graphic devices,
- however is not necessary for SCSI HDD adapters and/or Ethernet cards.
- Then, I'm OK if I have one VL-bus slot.
- --
- Ikuro
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