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In article <1jk41sINNapj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
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>>tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati) wrote:
>>My concern is that I had a argument with a dealer teh other day and he
>>claimed that the motherboard he was selling me had a local bus on it and
>>to me it just looked like an EISA.
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>I have seen propritary local bus schemes that used eisa edge connectors.
>I'd stay away from these odd ball local busses.  Not only may the company
>that makes it disappear, but I have seen some of them be less that 100%
>compatable with regualr software.
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Local  buses using the EISA connector aren`t really that odd. The OPTi
local bus standard that is used on many motherboards uses an EISA
connector. The problem that I have found is many dealers advertise the 
motherboards as having an "EISA Local Bus", and imply that any EISA
compatible card will work in it. Which is of course not true.

The nice thing about the OPTi local bus boards is that the local bus slots
can be jumpered to work as an ISA slot. OPTi compatible local bus cards
are also fairly easy to find. I heard from a distributor that before the
VESA standard was out, about 20% of the local bus motherboards used the 
OPTi standard but has dropped to about 10% now.

Mike





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