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From: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EISA 33 Mhz boards vs non EISA. Was: 20 Mhz 386 SX (?)
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Date: 5 Mar 90 19:16:17 GMT
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cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:

>In article <569@auvax.AthabascaU.CA> kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Kevin Crocker) writes:
>$O.K. Now, which machines have this EISA thing.

Olivetti has a machine with EISA that was reviewed in MIPS (now Personal
Workstation) magazine, but I don't know if they are actually shipping it. 
It was around a $20K machine I believe.  (It is a dual-processor machine,
with both a 486 and 860 in it- the reviewed machine didn't yet have the
EISA VGA card, etc.  though.)  Compaq has a more normal workstation: a 486
machine with EISA available, (shipping next month, I was told) on which I
got a quote for around $12K (that includes a 300MB disk but no monitor or
graphics card.)  ($17.5 list) I have not heard of any EISA machines cheaper
than that: nor have I heard of any 386 machines that are EISA- nobody seems
to be putting that bus into anything except high-end workstations or
bigger.  I don't think anyone is really taking advantage of the EISA much
either- there aren't very many boards out for it yet.  I concluded
(somebody let me know if they think I'm wrong) that if you have to pay
extra for EISA right now you're not buying much if any extra capability
now, but you're buying potential extra capability in the future. 
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