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- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Confused??? 486DX
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 04:01:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.040101.3180@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Sep9.140731.21517@crd.ge.com> <1992Sep10.034104.9879@nuscc.nus.sg>
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- In article <1992Sep10.034104.9879@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
- >davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- >: In article <14409@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, s923257@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Chew Ming Ean) writes:
- [...]
- >
- >On the other hand, EISA motherboards (in my country) cost about US$500
- >more only. Plus you can upgrade to EISA peripherals incrementally.
-
- Gee "ONLY" a half grand. Ahem. Also forget anything but an EISA HD
- controller on an EISA M/B for anything but DOS.
-
- >
- >:
- >: 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.
- >
- >Yep. With DOS - not much diff in the normal case. One the other hand,
- >OS/2 and NT (and Solaris , and NextStep) are coming up. You might want
- >to get a [real man's OS ;-)] capable machine.
-
- Not much real difference there either. Most people don't buy SCSI-II
- disk arrays and such so the bus is not really a bottleneck. Expect to
- see onboard graphics stuff soon, and local bus for video, *OR* video
- coprocessor cards (My clone Distributor sells 2 now for Windows) that
- will again reduce the ISA bus bottleneck's significance.
-
- >
- >One of the very real limitations regards these 32bit OSes that has been
- >exposed by OS/2 is the 16MB physical addressing limitation of the ISA
- >bus. ie. the DMA controllers can only access up to 16MB of physical
- >memory. OS/2 on [most] ISA machines therefore uses only the bottom 16MB
- >for process memory and any memory above that for page cache!
- >
-
- Nah, OS/2 is just broken in this respect then. SCO & I beleive SVR4
- reserve RAM <16MB for ISA DMA and copy up if need be. Pretty simple
- concept here IMHO. Then you can CRAM as much RAM as you want in the box
- and still use ISA controllers. Again, The bottlenecks aren't the BUS,
- but generally the DISKS themselves.
-
- >: 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.
- >
- >jin meng
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