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From: RREED@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ISA boards, EISA bus
Message-ID: <90263.172406RREED@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 90 21:24:06 GMT
References: <1990Sep19.233544.16757@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
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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?
>
Exactly!  That is one of the biggest advantages the EISA bus sports, high
performance and backwards compatibility, something that the Microchannel
bus machines can not claim.
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