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- From: bp112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven C. Lin)
- Subject: Re: VESA local bus -- A big deal?!
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- In a previous article, gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) says:
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- >My problem now is, what's the big deal about local bus. I have
- >seen some benchmarks recently from local bus vs. coprocessed
- >video (both S3 chipsets) which shows only minimal gains (1-2%).
- >This is hardly noticable, nor is it worth the extra cost of local
- >bus now. (is the S3 built around the 8MHz ISA bus?) Since I am
- > Has anyone seen better improvements than this, because I am
- >not impressed!
- >
- > - Mike Gile (gilem@rpi.edu)
- >
- Well, as far as I know, the VESA standard for local bus is very new, since
- my July PC magazine says that it is not finalized yet, I would assume that
- the standard became official sometime in July or August? which means that
- any benchmarks or reviews of local bus systems you may have read in
- magazines are probably using a proprietary bus system, not the VESA
- standard. In addition to not being compatible with VESA, I would assume
- that not all of these proprietary systems are up to par with the VESA
- performance!
-
- Steve Lin
- bp112@cleveland.freenet.edu
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