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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Confused??? 486DX
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.140731.21517@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:07:31 GMT
- References: <14409@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
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- In article <14409@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, s923257@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Chew Ming Ean) writes:
- | Is the 486 a 32 bit bus computer????
- |
- | If so what is the difference between the busses?? ISA and EISA???
- |
- | Will it make a lot of difference if I purchase the ISA instead of the EISA
- | bus???
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- No. The memory on a 486 (all the ones I've ever seen) is one the
- motherboard, and that's the primary bottleneck. Going to EISA will get
- you some extra performance with video and disk if you use pricy
- controllers, but it's not a huge difference, and unless you have a need
- for the ultimate speed in video and disk I wouldn't consider it.
-
- I use both ISA and EISA, and EISA config is a royal pain in the ...
- ear. Under normal single user load, and particularly with DOS, you will
- be able to measure the boost, but probably not feel it.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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