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- From: keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore)
- Subject: VLB Machines and Bus Mastering - AIR Motherboards
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 2 Jan 93 08:51:52 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.085153.29095@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- A motherboard vendor told me that I should buy an AIR motherboard because
- it is the only one they carry that has true bus mastering VLB slots. The
- others, including the Micronics board used in the Gateway machines, don't
- do bus mastering. The ATI graphics cards for local bus are, he said, bus
- mastering cards and can take advantage of the AIR board's bus mastering
- capability. My questions to all you netlanders are:
-
- 1) Is it true that the VESA VLB spec allows for non bus mastering cards?
- 2) Is this guy giving me a line of bull?
- 3) Does anyone out there know anything about AIR (Advanced Integrated Research)
- motherboards, or has anyone benched one of theses AIR VLB boards.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Keith R. Scidmore
-