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- From: tn0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Timothy L. Nali)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: EISA/VESA local bus systems
- Message-ID: <YfBg2uW00iV284XlU8@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:16:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.YfBg2uW00iV284XlU8
- Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Hi all,
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- I going to buy a 486DX/33 or 486DX2/66 in the near future. I've seen
- systems with VESA local bus slots or EISA bus or both. Needless to say,
- I know very little about local bus or EISA. It's my understanding that
- local bus is good for video cards and EISA is good for with hard drives
- / ethernet cards / modems / cd-rom / etc. What exactly are local bus
- and EISA?
-
- I plan to run Windows3.1 and Linux, a free unix clone. What kind of
- performance gain will I get with EISA, and more importantly, is EISA
- worth the extra money?
-
- Also, are there any problems with having both EISA and local-bus on the
- same system?
-
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