Re: Backing Up Vulcan

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <zcWdnc7Ny-CUfeLZnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> 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.

The AT introduced a 16-bit version of the ISA bus, which was backwards
compatible to the 8-bit version of ISA.

>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."


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