Matrox Animation Xpress
28-Mar-95 16:59:39
Sb: #161120-Matrox Animation Xpress
Fm: Douglas Campbell 71022,1611
To: Gary L. Angle 72732,271
Gary,
EISA refers to a Bus type, there are currently four types available on
IBM PC's: ISA, VESA, EISA, PCI. PCI is only available on pentimums, however
there are PCI/ ESIA/ ISA motherboards available in the aftermarket. The
philosophy is that one does not want to be orphaned or limited in choices of
various hardware.
An ISA bus has a throughput of 10 Megabytes per second (MBS) while ESIA has a
throughput of 33 MBS, and PCI has 133 MBS. Cad and video application are data
intensive, thus the throughput is critical. ESIA was introduced 5-7 years ago
so many of the developers used it to solve the Data bottelnecks. In the long
run PCI will win out due to its superior throughput. My choice of PCI/ESIA/ISA
allows flexability.
Cordially,
Douglas Campbell
Propose Software