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- From: blean@rwb.esd.sgi.com (Bob Blean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Who makes VESA local bus motherboards?
- Message-ID: <pg65pkg@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 02:20:34 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.171550.17522@grebyn.com> <Bu2soo.LKH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep5.131810.23736@panix.com> <1992Sep05.182115.2790@zeos.com>
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- Thanks for the detailed reply on ZEOS' local bus motherboard.
- Being fairly new to this stuff, I have a few questions:
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- In article <1992Sep05.182115.2790@zeos.com>, kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
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- |> - Supports the 486SX-25, 486DX-33, 486DX2-50, 486DX2-66 and the P24T when it
- |> is released.
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- How well is the P24T suported -- clock rate, bus widths, etc? I.E. how should
- one expect ZEOS' machine with a P24T to to compare to P5 machines? To top-end
- 486 machines? Any plans to support 486DX-50 (and 486DX2-100, if that ever
- materializes)?
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- |> - Two serial ports. National 87311 (16450 compatible).
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- I keep hearing about the importance of 16550's -- how does the 87311/16450
- compare? Say running windows and a fast modem?
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- |> - Built-in IDE interface that will support two IDE hard drives.
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- What does this mean for speed? Effectively ISA speed? Effectively local bus
- speed?
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- |> - Two VESA Local Bus Slots.
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- What do you offer that goes in these two slots? Any performance figures?
-
- -- Bob
- ("Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." H.D. Thoreau)
-