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From: stidolph@leland.Stanford.EDU (Wayne Stidolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ISA vs. EISA
Message-ID: <1991May21.030132.15565@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 May 91 03:01:32 GMT
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In article <1991May21.021748.12082@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
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>	ISA: Industry Standard Architecture.
>	EISA: Extended (Enhanced?) Industry Standard Architecture.
>
>	Both of these terms refer to the expansion slots on your motherboard.
>ISA allows 8- and 16-bit cards, EISA allows 32-bit cards.  EISA is faster,
>more efficient, and generally better.  However, it costs more, and there are
>not that many cards available for EISA.  Unless you have some special
>purpose in mind, i'd stick with ISA for now.
>
>John
Don't forget, your ISA cards will work in an EISA machine
(theoretically). So, upgrade motherboard now, cards later, as they come
on the market!

-- 
  Wayne stidolph@leland.stanford.edu