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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: EISA machine
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.134538.21071@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 13:45:38 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.195828.14013@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <1992Sep13.001835.24475@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Sep13.144934.2645@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Sep13.144934.2645@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jslm_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan Schulman) writes:
- >>EISA isn't going to provide ISA (AT bus) adapters with features that
- >>aren't found on the AT bus. Meaning that true 32-bit EISA adapters
- >>can share interrupts and other resources, but AT bus adapters cannot,
- >>even in an EISA system.
- >So even I have an EISA machine, I can't share the DMA channels between my
- >QIC-02 card, and my Soundblaster card. Great...
-
- That's my understanding, yes. Now you know why Microchannel
- proponents are arguing for that route.
-
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