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    The VESA Local Bus (usually abbreviated to VL-Bus or VLB) is a short-lived expansion bus introduced during the i486 generation of x86 IBM-compatible personal...
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  • boards are the most common. VESA Local Bus and Processor Direct Slot were examples of a local bus design. Although VL-Bus was later succeeded by AGP,...
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    however. Later buses such as VESA Local Bus and PCI were used instead, often along with ISA slots on the same mainboard. Derivatives of the AT bus structure...
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    bus to other devices VESA Advanced Feature Connector (VAFC), newer version of the VFC that widens the bus to either a 16-bit or 32-bit bus VESA Local...
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    Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) slots and one fast VESA Local Bus (VLB) slot as the bus configuration. It has subsequently been adopted for other...
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    there was a strong market need for a bus of these speeds and capabilities for desktop computers, the VESA Local Bus and later PCI filled this niche, and...
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  • VLB may refer to: VESA Local Bus, a local bus based on the Intel 80486 CPU Very large board, a large printed circuit board Vincaleukoblastine, or vinblastine...
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  • computer system that used a QED R4600 microprocessor implemented on a VESA Local Bus peripheral card and designed to function when connected to a host computer...
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    is the case, for instance, with the VESA Local Bus which lacks the two least significant bits, limiting this bus to aligned 32-bit transfers. Historically...
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    with the 16-bit AT bus, (embraced and renamed as ISA to avoid IBM's "AT" trademark) and manual configuration, although the VESA Local Bus (VLB) was briefly...
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  • Busdma (redirect from Bus dma)
    supporting more than one bus, e.g., ISA, EISA, VESA Local Bus and PCI, still sharing the same core logic irrespective of the bus, and such device drivers...
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    Expansion card (redirect from Expansion bus)
    industry white-paper. Proprietary local buses (q.v. Compaq) and then the VESA Local Bus Standard, were late 1980s expansion buses that were tied but not exclusive...
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    POWER series was used in a number of third-party designs based on the VESA Local Bus standard. The P9001 moved to PCI and became fairly popular in 1994,...
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    support for IBM's MCA bus, in addition to an 8 or 16-bit ISA bus. The ET4000AX could also support the emerging VESA Local Bus standard with some additional...
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    Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, SVGA graphics and IDE hard disks. Later models introduced VESA Local Bus and PCI. Processors range from the 386SLC-25...
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    connector was an internal connector found mostly in some older ISA, VESA Local Bus, and PCI graphics cards, but also on some early AGP ones. It was intended...
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  • Mike Taylor on a "archaic 486DX33 system with an ancient 512K VLB (VESA Local Bus) VGA card" as a Doom clone that could run smoothly on inexpensive computers...
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    401/402 ISA SiS 406/411 EISA, Vesa Local Bus SiS 460 ISA, Vesa Local Bus SiS 461 ISA, Vesa Local Bus SiS 471 ISA, Vesa Local Bus SiS 496/497 ISA, VLB, PCI...
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    and workstations. Consumer desktops often used the simpler, faster VESA Local Bus (VLB). Unfortunately prone to electrical and timing-based instability;...
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    peripheral controllers, real-time clock, PLL clock generators, VESA Local Bus and ISA bus interface. SC400 integrates in addition two PCMCIA 2.1 slots and...
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  • can communicate over various kinds of buses and channels. The distinction can be arbitrary between a computer bus, often closer in space, and larger telecommunications...
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  • The company introduced their first VESA Local Bus product with the GraphicsEngine 32VL in mid-1993. The VESA Local Bus was a motherboard technology that...
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    produced. This is likely due to VESA Local Bus being common in computers around the time of the processors introduction as the bus was notoriously unreliable...
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    controller. They were followed in 1996 by the SC4xx types. Now supporting VESA Local Bus and using the Am486 with up to 100 MHz clock speed. A SC450 with 33 MHze...
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  • Information Resource Under Seize VLAN—Virtual Local Area Network VLSM—Variable-length subnet masking VLB—Vesa Local Bus VLF—Very Low Frequency VLIW—Very Long...
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    that it would be implemented in most desktop PCs, the much cheaper VESA Local Bus had removed most of the need for it in desktop PCs (though it remained...
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    models had a selectable bus architecture (SelectaBus) through a replaceable riser-card, offering the choice of either VESA Local Bus/ISA or PCI/ISA. Within...
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    parties and PC cloners largely stuck with ISA until the short-lived VESA Local Bus and then Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) was released in 1992...
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  • Technology page Local-bus graphics becomes viable; standards, products emerge, InfoWorld, November 4, 1991 IBM's owning XGA trademark means VESA standard delay...
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    capabilities as the NetPlex along with additional features such as VESA Local Bus expansion slots, expandable VRAM, and stronger processor models. It...
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