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From: reynaldo@athena.mit.edu (Rey Villarreal)
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Subject: Re: ISA vs. EISA
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Date: 21 May 91 06:57:06 GMT
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I read somewhere, I believe PC Magazine, that after extensive testing there
was no noticible difference in speed between EISA,ISA, and MCA. If this 
is true there is no reason to upgrade now. This may change when the
50mhz 486's come out though. My advice to you is spend the money on
a good fast video card with 1 meg of memory. I hear the diamond speedster
is nice. As an Amiga owner and probable future Gateway owner I can atest 
to how nice it is to have a nice faster display with a GUI. EVer use a
PS/2 70 running windows, Yuck!!!! Slow as molasses. Anyone know if a 
Gateway with speedster 486/25 is much faster.


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