CompuServe Messages

[Continued] "In fact, manufacturers that make identical ISA and local bus adapters have priced their local bus versions the same as their ISA products. Why? Because they aren't any faster. The bottleneck is not in the bus — it's in the CPU on one side and the graphics coprocessor on the other. Neither can move the data faster then the ISA bus can move it" If you know anyone with a subscription to InfoWorld, or if your library has it, I suggest you check this out. Gibson is a master at presenting this tech stuff in a clear, readable, and understandable manner and his logic is irrefutable. Greg LeVasseur P.S. He _does_ mention one instance where local bus did show a performance improvement and that is in "nonmainstream applications involving nothing but colorful static image movement to the screen." That sounds a lot like playing a flic file so maybe local bus is useful in this one area.