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From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EISA 33 Mhz boards vs non EISA. Was: 20 Mhz 386 SX (?)
Message-ID: <25F3DDFF.1762@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 6 Mar 90 15:57:51 GMT
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In article <888@gistdev.gist.com> flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) writes:
$[...]  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. 

   Well, Zenith has a 386/33 with an EISA bus, and an EISA disk
controller (see February 1990 BYTE).  Expect to see more 386-based
EISA machines in the not-too-distant future.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
          <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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