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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gordon Hlavenka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ISA boards, EISA bus
Message-ID: <26fa4567-253.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 21 Sep 90 17:55:05 GMT
References: <1990Sep19.233544.16757@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
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>occasionally I see ads for EISA motherboards that sya they can use
>either EISA or ISA boards. how can this be?

The EISA spec was designed to be backwards-compatible with the ISA (AT) bus,
which in turn is backwards-compatible (mostly :-) with the XT bus.  So...

>is this part of the EISA spec?

Yes.

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Gordon S. Hlavenka            cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
Disclaimer:                Yeah, I said it.  So what?