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- From: jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Slagel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Who makes VESA local bus motherboards?
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- Date: 4 Sep 92 22:48:22 GMT
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- richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
-
- >...and, from whom could I purchase one? Would an EISA bus be cheaper?
-
- >Another related question:
-
- >A comparison benchmark I saw recently (sorry, I don't recall where) of
- >local bus video has an interesting statistic. It showed that all the
- >local bus video cards (well, the ones they tested) only provide a 16
- >bit memory interface. This was apparent from the benchmarks; moving
- >DWORDs was no faster than moving WORDs. I can understand why this
- >would be, since all the local bus video cards use the same 16 bit
- >chips (S3, ET4000) as are used in ISA bus cards.
-
- >So, does anyone know if there are any VGA cards for local bus with a
- >*real* 32 bit data path?
-
- The VESA standard for local bus isn't expected till later this year.
- So, for now, nobady makes one.
- I think the reason they dont use 32-bit access is because all the
- software written now doesn't, so it would mess things up.
-
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