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Article #8820Re: ISA/EISA
From: Nur Iskandar Taib
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 17:11
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1991 17:11
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>>> (I remember giving a Zenith sales rep a really hard time >>> because she insisted the 32-bit slots in their machines >>> was ISA). >>That's mean, cruel and nasty! 8-) >>She was only doing her job!! 8-), 8-) >I hate to say this, but she might have been entirely correct. The 32 >bit slot in my machine is ISA. i.e., you can stick a 16-bit ISA board >into it, and that board will run just fine. I currently have my video >card sitting there. The second, "AT" part of the connector is longer >to accomodate the extra lines. As a matter of fact, the Zenith 32-bit slots WERE 16-bit ISA compatible (they call them SmartSlots or something of the sort). The cards are, as one might expect, proprietary and not ISA. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: ISA/EISA Message-ID: <1991Apr1.171119.19603@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <1991Mar30.222106.28919@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Mar31.182147.361@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1991Mar31.075931.8606@cs.uoregon.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 17:11:19 GMT Lines: 29