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Re: Backing Up Vulcan

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

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