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From: Bill Broadley <broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu>
Subject: EISA?
To: riscy@pyramid.com
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 06:38:31 -0500 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <9308111019.AA22478@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de> from "Andreas Busse" at Aug 11, 93 12:19:45 pm
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> You all might have noticed that the NEC chip has built-in EISA
> support. That does not mean that we have to use EISA as our bus
> system. The chip also provides a nearly complete 386 bus, so it
> shouldn't be a problem to add some ISA chips.
> 
> Andy

EISA is a pretty good bus, something like 6 times the bandwidth of ISA.

Isn't it completely upward compatible from ISA (i.e. we can use it just
like a ISA bus).

I certainly wouldn't object to an EISA bus on the riscy board, and if
the ARC chips support it it's practically free.

I believe the ARC 100 manufacturing kits include plans for 3 EISA boards
Etherenet/serial, audio/mouse, and video.  Whether we we use any of those
would just be a price/performance decision.

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