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keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore) writes:
>
>     A motherboard vendor told me that I should buy an AIR motherboard because
>it is the only one they carry that has true bus mastering VLB slots.  The 
>others, including the Micronics board used in the Gateway machines, don't
>do bus mastering.  The ATI graphics cards for local bus are, he said, bus
>mastering cards and can take advantage of the AIR board's bus mastering
>capability.  My questions to all you netlanders are:
>
>1) Is it true that the VESA VLB spec allows for non bus mastering cards?
>2) Is this guy giving me a line of bull?
>3) Does anyone out there know anything about AIR (Advanced Integrated Research)
>   motherboards, or has anyone benched one of theses AIR VLB boards.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Keith R. Scidmore


Hi,

If he's not giving you a line of bull, then you may buy one, in which case you
will be getting a new leading edge AIR board. In other words, instead of a
load of bull, you will get hot AIR.

Excuse me.

From what I have read the current VESA open standard for local bus does not
support bus mastering. The VESA II spec does support it but it is still under
revision. Intel is working on a standard for local bus that apparently does
support bus mastering but I don't think it's been released yet. I don't know
if this helps any, but at least it adds SOME useful content to a sad excuse
for a pun posting...



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