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- From: miket@amc.com (Mike Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Local Bus: Visual Identification?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.170941.23648@amc.com>
- Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
- References: <1993Jan16.114710.22920@solace.hsh.se> <tooraj.727270173@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> <1jk41sINNapj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:09:41 GMT
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- In article <1jk41sINNapj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
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- >>tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati) wrote:
- >>My concern is that I had a argument with a dealer teh other day and he
- >>claimed that the motherboard he was selling me had a local bus on it and
- >>to me it just looked like an EISA.
- >
- >
- >I have seen propritary local bus schemes that used eisa edge connectors.
- >I'd stay away from these odd ball local busses. Not only may the company
- >that makes it disappear, but I have seen some of them be less that 100%
- >compatable with regualr software.
- >--
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- Local buses using the EISA connector aren`t really that odd. The OPTi
- local bus standard that is used on many motherboards uses an EISA
- connector. The problem that I have found is many dealers advertise the
- motherboards as having an "EISA Local Bus", and imply that any EISA
- compatible card will work in it. Which is of course not true.
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- The nice thing about the OPTi local bus boards is that the local bus slots
- can be jumpered to work as an ISA slot. OPTi compatible local bus cards
- are also fairly easy to find. I heard from a distributor that before the
- VESA standard was out, about 20% of the local bus motherboards used the
- OPTi standard but has dropped to about 10% now.
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- Mike
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- Applied Microsystems Corp. (206) 882-5309 (Wk)
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