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- From: vatavian@gvu1.gatech.edu (Mark Gray)
- Subject: Re: Local Bus, what is it?
- Message-ID: <vatavian.715881782@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
- References: <1992Sep6.060102.316@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Sep06.180304.9081@zeos.com> <Bu75yp.61A@rice.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:03:02 GMT
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- >Am I correct in thinking that local bus *does not* obsolete EISA?
-
- Yes.
-
- I haven't seen a board with all your specs, but V-COM (September
- Computer Shopper pages 203-215) sells systems with a motherboard that
- has both EISA(5) and local bus(2) slots and can take any Intel 486 currently
- available. Since the processor comes on its own expansion board, this
- whole board could be replaced with a P5 board if they ever build one.
- They have a 256k external processor cache that can be expanded to
- 512k. Since the picture of the board shows only 8 SIMM sockets and
- they claim to support 128 meg of ram on board, I would say this board
- recognizes 16M SIMMS.
- The only place where this board fails to meet your specs is
- that the local bus does not seem to follow the VESA standard, so
- unless they have the only local bus cards you'll ever want (they do
- have a 24-bit super-VGA local bus card) maybe you should wait for a
- similar system with VESA standard local bus which will accept any of
- the future local bus cards coming out.
-
- >Dwayne Fontenot
-
- [blah, blah, no connection to V-COM except saw their system in the
- Shopper and it looked interesting, blah, blah]
-
- -Mark Gray
- vatavian@cc.gatech.edu
-