BLuRry wrote:
yikes, nobody got the fact I was being a smartass. Sorry. It's just that ISA is so far out the door it's becoming more difficult to find a motherboard that has an ISA slot on it these days. :-) (very good explanation though guys -- I still learned something from your description all the same)
Sorry I blurred the details--I completely spaced on EISA being 32 bits! I never actually used an EISA-supporting machine, but I should have remembered all the wires on that fine-pitch, dual-rank edge connector. I've kept my last ISA-supporting machine just for the odd case when it is required--though that "blazing" 133MHz machine seems a little backward these days. ;-) -michael
Michael J. Mahon wrote:BLuRry wrote:What is this... "ISA".... you speak of?Wow--I feel like Odysseus, who walked inland carrying an oar until the people he met asked him what it was. (He then settled there, confident that he was far from the sea and its concerns. ;-) ISA is the Industry Standard Architecture for the 8-bit IBM PC expansion bus. It was the PC equivalent of the Apple peripheral bus. It was briefly augmented with EISA (the Extended ISA) 16-bit bus on some higher-end 286 and 386 systems--as an industry response to the *licensed* PS/2 bus that IBM introduced. It didn't really go away until well after PCI had come on the scene. -michael Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."
-- -michael Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."