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From: KDM101@psuvm.psu.edu (Kevin Maher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ISA boards, EISA bus
Message-ID: <90263.134455KDM101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 17:44:55 GMT
References: <1990Sep19.233544.16757@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <1990Sep19.233544.16757@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>,
fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (LEVINSON DONALD A) says:
>
>occasionally I see ads for EISA motherboards that sya they can use
>either EISA or ISA boards. how can this be?
>is this part of the EISA spec?
>
>fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
>don levinson


As far as I know (from what I've read in the trade mags, it is part
of EISA's spec to accept the standard ISA boards.  There is a special
"key" on the EISA boards that allow it to slip the whole way into the
bus slot and connect with all of the slot contacts.  Standard ISA
boards will slip down into the slot 100%.  PC magazine just reviewed
the 3 major bus architectures about a month ago.  If you know somebody
that gets this magazine, you may want to check it out. (as far as they
were concerned, ISA will be around for a while yet.  Neither EISA or
MCA are that much better that they'll wipe out ISA)
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