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From: jlaiho@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 8-bit v. 16-bit cards
Message-ID: <3118.26f65e1e@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 18 Sep 90 17:49:18 GMT
References: <13728@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <13728@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt4824a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt4824a BEKER,PAUL) writes:
> Can I plug an 8-bit card (i.e. a RLL controller, or a VGA card) into
> a physical 16-bit bus like those found on 2/386 machines?  Will the
> performance of either the card or the m'board suffer?
> 
> Thanks!  Paul Beker  ..  gt4824a@prism.gatech.edu

NEVER even try to put an 8-bit hard-disk controller to a machine w
16-bit bus. I don't know whether or not it actually destroys something,
but definitely it won't work.

Display cards are okay, you can just fine put an 8-bit VGA card to AT
bus.

About the other card I say nothing.

Juha Laiho  jlaiho@cc.Helsinki.FI