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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: EISA machine
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.234153.22038@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:41:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep14.165824.2453@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jslm_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan Schulman) writes:
- >>That's my understanding, yes. Now you know why Microchannel
- >>proponents are arguing for that route.
- >But MCA can share interrupts and DMA channels even though it is an ISA
- >card. Wait, MCA can't use ISA cards. If I remember, there really aren't
- >too many EISA cards out there. How important is it to have an EISA
- >machine?
-
- Precisely.
-
- It is growing more important (having a 32-bit bus with bus mastering
- adapters) as systems get faster and software more demanding. I would
- certainly recommend a Microchannel or EISA system as a LAN server or
- multimedia platform, for example.
-
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