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Re: On The Face + other all-in-one chip
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:55:32 +0000 ( ), "Peter L. Peres"
<plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>
>> 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 ?)
>
>Dear Schlomo, EISA is the 'Extended Industry Standard Architecture'. Pay
>attention to the fact that 'Industry' does not mean
>Microsoft+Intel+Cyrix+2 others.
>
>While the PC industry has been pushing EISA out, not because it is
>unusable, but because it wants to sell you new and fascinating things, the
>industrial PC industry is busily making boards with up to 16 EISA slots.
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Sorry, I've been following the industrial computer field, and so far
all the expansion backplanes I've seen for sale are ISA+PCI, not EISA.
You are right that industrial computers use a lot of different card
types that does not require a high bandwidth, and does not require the
PCI levels of performance.
EISA cards, on the other hand, are (were) expensive, because they were
trying to achieve high performance while staying backwards compatible
with ISA.
Also, industrial computers are HIGHLY dependant on desktop PC
architecture, because ALL industrial computers that I know use off the
shelf PCI chipsets from Intel, SiS, and Opti. All of these provide
ISA, not EISA. I don't know of any chipset providing EISA **which is
still manufactured**. These chipsets have a very short life span.
I do agree that *ISA* is here to stay, as far as industrial computers
go.
Udi