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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: ISA/EISA
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.171119.19603@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 17:11:19 GMT
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>>> (I remember giving a Zenith sales rep a really hard time 
>>> because she insisted the 32-bit slots in their machines 
>>> was ISA).
>>That's mean, cruel and nasty!   8-)
>>She was only doing her job!!    8-), 8-)

>I hate to say this, but she might have been entirely correct. The 32
>bit slot in my machine is ISA. i.e., you can stick a 16-bit ISA board
>into it, and that board will run just fine. I currently have my video
>card sitting there. The second, "AT" part of the connector is longer
>to accomodate the extra lines.


As a matter of fact, the Zenith 32-bit slots WERE 16-bit ISA 
compatible (they call them SmartSlots or something of the sort). 
The cards are, as one might expect, proprietary and not ISA. 







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