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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!tandon!tdbear
- From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Local Bus ans Disk/VGA Speed
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.213505.18261@tandon.com>
- Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
- References: <GERRY.92Aug18093645@onion.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:35:05 GMT
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- In article <GERRY.92Aug18093645@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
- >Does an ISA system with local bus slots (one for VGA and one for disk)
- >have as great an impact on system performance as claimed by the
- >manufacturers?
-
- Not at all... that is until you fill those slots with local bus
- cards :)
-
- Since all of the "standards" have not been adopted yet, your
- safest bet is to just buy the system preconfigured with local
- bus controllers. Just be sure to see the coretest and
- winbench numbers BEFORE you buy... not all local bus videos
- and IDEs are made the same!
-
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