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    Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced "eee-suh") is a bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers. It was announced...
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  • Eisa or EISA may refer to: Extended Industry Standard Architecture, a bus standard for computer add-on cards EISA partition, an OEM disk partition type...
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    initiative (OMI), the "Gang of Nine" that developed EISA, etc.[citation needed] Early computer buses were bundles of wire that attached computer memory...
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    Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA), was not very successful, however. Later buses such as VESA Local Bus and PCI were used instead, often along...
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    licensing fees to use it. While an extension of the royalty-free ISA bus in the form of EISA open standard was developed to counter MCA, its bandwidth of 33...
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  • CardBus designs. The major benefit of the ExpressCard over the PC card is more bandwidth, due to the ExpressCard's direct connection to the system bus over...
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  • partial list of expansion bus interfaces, or expansion card slots, for installation of expansion cards. Bus interfaces ISA EISA NuBus PCI PCI Express ×16 slot...
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    Direct Media Interface (category Computer buses)
    isochronous data transfer capabilities.: 3  DMI replaced FSB (Front Side Bus) which was elminated in 2009. DMI 1.0, introduced in 2004 with a data transfer...
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    desktop bus technologies, including Micro Channel, NuBus, ISA, and EISA. The 86C05 was ultimately co-designed between the two companies, with BusTek supplying...
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    Multibus is a computer bus standard used in industrial systems. It was developed by Intel Corporation and was adopted as the IEEE 796 bus. The Multibus specification...
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    architecture (MCA) and Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) as the server expansion bus of choice. In mainstream PCs, PCI was slower to replace VLB...
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  • UNIX workstations of the era — for example, the Magnum R4000 included an EISA bus, used IBM PS/2-compatible keyboards and mice, and used commodity chipset...
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    EISA and Micro Channel battled it out in the server arena, but, in 1996, IBM effectively conceded defeat, when they themselves produced some EISA-bus...
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    motherboards came equipped with a 32-bit EISA bus that was backward compatible with the ISA-standard. EISA offered attractive features such as increased...
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    Both systems are based on the MIPS processors, with EISA bus and SGI proprietary GIO64 expansion bus via a riser card. The Indigo preceded the Indigo2,...
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  • 16 MB of RAM. In the next versions, it supported 256 MB RAM and the PCI bus. EISA versions always supported 256 MB RAM. Coherent (operating system) This...
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    2016. Moran, Tom; Scannel, Ed (September 26, 1988). "New EISA Features Set It Apart From the AT Bus". InfoWorld. p. 23. Archived from the original on June...
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    Expansion card (redirect from Expansion bus)
    favor due to the ISA's industry-wide acceptance and IBM's licensing of MCA. EISA, the 32-bit extended version of ISA championed by Compaq, was used on some...
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  • GIO (category Computer buses)
    Architecture (EISA) Micro Channel architecture (MCA) VESA Local Bus (VESA) Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) NuBus SBus GIO BUS SPECIFICATION version...
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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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  • J-class workstations, and the D- and R-class servers, used the so-called "EISA form factor". Many different types of card were produced, including Gigabit...
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    a line of Ethernet IEEE 802.3 network cards for the ISA, EISA, MCA and PCMCIA computer buses. It was designed by 3Com and put on the market in 1992, followed...
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  • Direct memory access (category Computer storage buses)
    even by the 16-bit-bus 286 and 386SX could still easily outstrip the 8237), as well as the development of further evolutions to (EISA) or replacements for...
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  • the EISA bus for expansion instead of the TURBOchannel interconnect. The decision to use the EISA bus was due to cost requirements. The EISA bus was an...
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    In the event, the new EISA bus was itself a commercial failure beyond the high end: By the time the cost of implementing EISA was reduced to the extent...
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  • Channel bus or an EISA bus and dual Pentium processor sockets. IBM manufactured the Micro Channel version while using Micronics' board for the EISA version...
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  • upgraded, a future product with an upgradeable CPU module and using the EISA bus was planned. Subsequently, in 1993 and with Windows NT in beta testing...
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    and graphics on a display device. Bus master adapters fit in EISA or MCA expansion slots in computers, and use bus mastering to quickly transfer data...
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    also use the Wax ASIC to provide an EISA adapter, a second serial port and support for the HIL bus. The SGC bus (System Graphics Connect), which is used...
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  • manufacturers revolted against IBM and developed their own open standards bus, known as EISA. Consequently, MCA usage languished except in IBM's mainframes. In...
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