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Article #1691Re: EISA Board Compatibility
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:33
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:33
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In <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu> mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (Matthew Frazer) writes: >EISA Boards have faster bus speeds to the card slots, but do I need to >buy all new EISA compatible cards, or can I use my old >cards in the EISA slots? They are not significantly faster (8.33 MHz vice 8 MHz). The whole idea behind EISA was that you could plug all your old cards into it and they would work. They do. There are, in fact, some things that you would be hard pressed to find an EISA card for. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: EISA Board Compatibility Message-ID: <1992Sep10.183339.18855@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc References: <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:33:39 GMT Lines: 17