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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Bus def's ==> Re: EISA vs. ISA (& VESA, VL-bus, Local bus)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:09:47 GMT
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- In article <b=d238d@rpi.edu> moncrg@aix.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff) writes:
-
- >is there any rational reason why peripherals board manufacturers could
- >not simply rate their boards in terms of the highest bus speeds they
- >can accomodate?
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- Problem is, I think, like CPUs different examples from the
- same assembly line will be able to take different speeds.
-
- Speed testing is probably another expense peripheral manu-
- facturers don't want to get into, since the vast majority
- of users don't really know enough to do it.
-
- Besides it opens up a can of worms. Instead of just stocking
- Diamond Speedstar cards, a vendor will have to stock Speed-
- star-8's, Speedstar-10's and Speedstar-12s at different prices.
-
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