Re: Backing Up Vulcan

["BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

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)

-B

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
>
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