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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ISA boards, EISA bus
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.072516.15670@amd.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 07:25:16 GMT
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In article <1471@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
|There are 2 tiers of connector 'fingers' on an EISA card. 
|
|	 |                                                 |
|	 \_______________________                      ____/
|				 |____________________|  <---- ISA fingers
|				   |________________|    <---- EISA fingers
|

That was the original plan but then someone came up with the scheme
described by Sean and it was adopted. Clever idea.

As for the comments on the need for EISA, I would expect them to
be accurate for at least 5 years, if not forever, with the possible
exception of video. I don't know if there will be a plug-in XGA
card (1024x768, 16 bit color) but if so it can probably use all
the speed you can get.

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