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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: EISA Board Compatibility
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.183339.18855@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:33:39 GMT
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- In <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu> mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (Matthew Frazer) writes:
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- >EISA Boards have faster bus speeds to the card slots, but do I need to
- >buy all new EISA compatible cards, or can I use my old
- >cards in the EISA slots?
-
- They are not significantly faster (8.33 MHz vice 8 MHz). The whole
- idea behind EISA was that you could plug all your old cards into it
- and they would work. They do. There are, in fact, some things that
- you would be hard pressed to find an EISA card for.
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