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09/07/2001 17:18:21
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
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00527252
Message ID:
00528378
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>>I can bring in what I have in the AM...can you check your available slots tonight?
>
>Sure. I'll be trying to put in the 28.8 tonight anyway and testing that.
>
>BTW, I always thought that the long slots were EISA (I have a great deal of problems keeping software and hardware acronyms straight< bg >). Wasn't that introduced with the advent of the AT?
>

EISA (Extended ISA, it is 32-bit) came out during the 386 or 486 era, and was supposed to compete with IBM microchannel technology. The PCI bus came out about the same time as the Pentium, rendering EISA (on PC's anyway--I think they lived on in certain UNIX-type workstations) & microchannel obsolete

There are two kinds of standard ISA slots...8-bit ISA, and the longer 16-bit ISA slot. Pentium systems generally have 16-bit slots (along with the PCI slots). An 8-bit ISA card will fit into a 16-bit slot, because the first part of the slot (closest to the back of the machine) is identical on each kind of slot.

I don't remember exactly what an EISA slot looks like, but I don't think it looks the same as a 16-bit ISA slot.

< Disclaimer >
It's been a while since the 486 days...
Steve Gibson
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