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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zeos!kgermann
- From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
- Subject: Re: Arguments Against Local Bus? (Was: Local Bus, what is it?)
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 13:17:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep09.131756.11565@zeos.com>
- References: <1992Sep09.014838.22919@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep09.014838.22919@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
- >kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
- >| LOCAL BUS is the bus that your processor accesses memory on. It runs at the
- >| same speed as the processor. This is much faster than EISA. Most people
- >| who buy EISA, buy one because they want faster hard disk access,
- >| faster video, and faster Ethernet access. I would exepect to see in the
- >| upcoming months boards designed to accomodate LOCAL BUS SCSI, IDE, ETHERNET;
- >| Not necessarily from ZEOS.
- >
- > I have pretty much decided on getting a 66DX2 vesa-local-bus system,
- > but before I do, I'd like to hear some arguments against it. What
- > are some of the drawbacks of a local bus? Wouldn't a 32-bit video card,
- > a SCSI controller and an Ethernet card all the same bus cause some
- > problems?
-
- There will be timing issues that need to be addressed. They are
- simpliefied with only having two Local Bus Slots.
-
- > What are the drawbacks of the VESA-standard VL-bus versus
- > the upcoming Intel PCI local-bus?
-
- There is an article in the Computer Shopper this month that talks about
- the Local Bus standards and the number of companies that have accepted
- the Local Bus Standard. The Computer Shopper issue is the one with
- the modem reviews of 1300 modems.
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