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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: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:19:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.031901.6429@zeos.com>
- References: <1992Sep09.014838.22919@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> <1992Sep09.131756.11565@zeos.com> <1992Sep9.205549.20736@proton.llumc.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep9.205549.20736@proton.llumc.edu> borodin@hope.llumc.edu (Sergi Borodin) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep09.131756.11565@zeos.com> kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
- >
- >!> 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
- >!simplified with only having two Local Bus Slots.
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- The correction to the needing to be addressed is have been addressed.
-
- > How come? Two slots put twice as much load on bus drivers,
- >besides the capacitance of two slots will also be two times
- >bigger. And if we'd count the capacitance of the traces, and
- >all that at 33-50 Mhz.. You gotta be kidding.
- >I understand that "Zeos" might be offering moms with
- >two local bus slots, but ...
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- We are offering a Local Bus Motherboard. The design of the Motherboard
- has only 4 chips. BIOS, Processor, nd two other SI Chips.
-
- >
- > Since CPU can't address two slots simultaneously I don't see
- >(do you? tell me) why (despite commercial interest) two slots
- >could cause better performance.
- >
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