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- From: dlyons@necis.UUCP (Dave Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ISA cards in an EISA
- Message-ID: <1712@necis.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 18:08:13 GMT
- References: <28659.2AB387F1@psycho.fidonet.org>
- Organization: NEC Information Systems, Acton, MA
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- In article <28659.2AB387F1@psycho.fidonet.org>, Rick.Schryvers@psycho.fidonet.org (Rick Schryvers) wrote:
- > To: adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg)
- > On 09-07-92 Adam Goldberg wrote to All...
-
- AG> dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Daniel Boulet) writes:
- AG> >I'm about to purchase an EISA bus system. I've heard that there are
- AG> some
- AG> >problems that one can encounter if ISA cards are used in an EISA
- . . . .
- AG> An EISA bus runs at 16MHz, but an ISA bus runs (usually) at 8 or 10
- AG> MHz.
- AG> When you plug an ISA card into an EISA bus, the EISA bus sees the ISA
- AG> card and lowers it's speed to 8MHz. Thereby decreasing throughput
- AG> because of the lower clock speed.
-
- RS> I don't believe that the entire bus slows down for the isa card.
-
- The EISA bus runs at 8.333MHz, not 16MHz. The advantage to the EISA
- bus is the greater bit-width, sharable interrupts, auto configuration,
- and multiple bus mastering, not increased bus speed. The increase in
- bus PERFORMANCE is due to these design improvements rather than
- mucking around with bus speeds which invariably creates
- incompatibility problems.
- -- Dave --
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