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Re: On The Face + other all-in-one chip



Hi,

I thought EISA is dead ! What's the use of EISA if you have PCI ???
Do you know a board-maker that uses this chip ?
(And for that and Israeli reseller ?)

Schlomo

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> 
> There is another new all-in-one chip from SiS. It is new. Has SVGA (don't
> know which), 2xserial, 2xparallel, USB, 4xEIDE on it. It is rather large
> but cheaper than multi-chipset solutions. It also looks weird, green with
> cooling fins built in. 
> 
> You add ram and a processor. Drives PCI and EISA buses. Takes Pentium and
> Cyrix and K6 if I'm not wrong.
> 
> Machines based on this chip looked 20% cheaper than their counterparts at
> sensibly identical performance (source: Computer Buyer - UK, December 97).
> 
> imho the capability to change the processor is important for users who
> want to be able to upgrade.
> 
> I do not know if Xfree86 supports its SVGA driver, the rest should not be
> a problem. Anyone tried this ?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
>