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Article #596Re: Confused??? 486DX
From: william E Davidsen
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 14:07
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 14:07
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In article <14409@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, s923257@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Chew Ming Ean) writes:
| Is the 486 a 32 bit bus computer????
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| If so what is the difference between the busses?? ISA and EISA???
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| Will it make a lot of difference if I purchase the ISA instead of the EISA
| bus???
No. The memory on a 486 (all the ones I've ever seen) is one the
motherboard, and that's the primary bottleneck. Going to EISA will get
you some extra performance with video and disk if you use pricy
controllers, but it's not a huge difference, and unless you have a need
for the ultimate speed in video and disk I wouldn't consider it.
I use both ISA and EISA, and EISA config is a royal pain in the ...
ear. Under normal single user load, and particularly with DOS, you will
be able to measure the boost, but probably not feel it.
--
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!rdsunx.crd.ge.com!ariel!davidsen From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Confused??? 486DX Message-ID: <1992Sep9.140731.21517@crd.ge.com> Date: 9 Sep 92 14:07:31 GMT References: <14409@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Sender: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP) Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: ariel.crd.ge.com