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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Usefulness of EISA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.213120.15305@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <EfCBKeS00WB7E5vW4u@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:31:20 GMT
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- In <EfCBKeS00WB7E5vW4u@andrew.cmu.edu> "Timothy L. Nali" <tn0s+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- >I planning on buying a 486dx2/66 with VESA local bus video and hard
- >drive controller. I also seen systems in which the other slots are
- >EISA. Since I'm getting local bus already, what will I gain with EISA?
-
- If you're not planning on doing any kind of multitasking, not much.
- Otherwise, what you gain is the ability for an EISA SCSI controller to
- be working at the same time as your VL video board. Failing that,
- you'll have to settle for ISA controllers (which isn't all that bad
- for single devices). Just keep in mind that only one VL board can
- 'talk' at a time.
-
- >Also, I'm thinking about a 17 inch monitor. However, I have all these
- >cool games that run in 300x200x256. Does that mode look o.k. on a 17
- >inch monitor, or will it look too blocky?
-
- Don't see why it would be a problem. Of course, I'm not sure why you
- need a 17" VL VESA video system to do games that only use 300x200x256.
-
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