On Jun 23, 2:10, Bill Broadley <broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu> wrote:
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>I've heard rumors about cheap EISA support chipsets anyone know how much
>it would add?
>
If we are going to build this mother board, I was thinking that it might
be wise to have a slot or two (sort of like a local bus or a Mac's CPU
slot) which allows high speed access to memory and the CPU. We may
eventually want to build upgrade CPU cards, or co-processor(s), or
whatever. The point is, from past experience, no matter how well designed
a mother board is initially, someone will find a need to add faster
components to it later on and having to do that thru an ISA slot will be a
real liability. So I think if having such a thing doesn't add too much to
the complexity and/or cost of the mother board, we should give it serious
thought.
hai
pham@px1.stfx.ca
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