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- From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
- Subject: Re: EISA Board Compatibility
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.131232.7977@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
- References: <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu> <1992Sep10.183339.18855@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:12:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.183339.18855@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu> mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (Matthew Frazer) writes:
- >
- >>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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- Now I *am* confused! I thought I just read a long thread last month
- about EISA and how much faster the bus is, but some folks were worried
- that putting an ISA card in the EISA machine would slow down that bus.
- 8.33 vs. 8 doesn't seem that much faster, and I'd swear the numbers
- used for EISA were much higher. Anyone?......
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