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From: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: $2100 486-25?
Message-ID: <1054@gistdev.gist.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 19:37:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.060333.8002@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> <1991Jan13.214159.1306@urz.unibas.ch>
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ganter@urz.unibas.ch writes:

>In article <1991Jan8.060333.8002@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>, millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller) writes:
>> 
>> 	Well, I was just flipping through the Jan'91 issue of _Computer
>> Shopper_, and I think I found a record-breaker on page 466.  Get this:
>A 486 used on a ISA-board with a maximum of 8M of RAM on board is just kidding,
>it's like driving a Porsche on the Alaska-highway.
>If you really need the power of a 486, you need EISA, too (a computer doesn't
>consist of a CPU only).

>ganter@urz.unibas.ch


You don't need an EISA bus to take advantage of a 486's power, any
more than you have to have 4 wheel drive to get better acceleration
with a V-8 engine in your car, if where you are driving is on
pavement.  It is the applications you are going to use that determine
what is best: If the applications you run are CPU intensive, the bus
doesn't matter much.  Even if they are disk I/O intensive, the quality
of your disk controller is going to make a lot more difference than
the bus does.  If your applications are doing a lot of display I/O,
then an EISA bus with an EISA video controller may be the way to go. 
-- 
Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
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