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- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Intel's new PCI archictecture
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:58:36 GMT
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- Well, with the "is EISA or VL-Bus better" pretty much becoming a FAQ, I will
- add a new twist.
-
- I just read that Intel is going licence its new PCI architecture to hardware
- manufactures for *free*!
-
- I know that a few, very few, are going to start coming out in January, but
- I'm wondering how much this might help.
-
- I'm under the impression that Intel is the only company who can make the
- PCI chipset. Anyone know when a clone might be out? (Isn't it true that
- only in the 2nd half of 1992 did a "cheap" EISA clone come out?)
-
- All I know about PCI is that it will be 32-bits wide and run at 33mhz.
-
- I don't know how it is layed out, if it is backward compatible, if it is
- simply "EISA at 33mhz" (in terms of features).
-
- EISA at 33mhz will be nice.
-
- I wonder how it will perform in 50mhz 486's, and 66 & 100mhz 586's.
-