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VLB MB is short lingo for Vesa Local Bus Main Board. This bus is a special slot that VLB cards plug into that allow the card to access the CPU direct by way of a 32 bit data path and at CPU speed. These slots are available on MB's with both EISA and ISA bus slots. The advantage of the VLB is speed for currently three types of I/O cards; VGA's, Disk controllers, and Network cards. Also, the cost of a VLB card is lower than the EISA equivalent. Straight EISA is 32 bit but at bus speed of 8 Mhz. not CPU speed or typical 33 Mhz. John, there are all kinds of variations of the above and continued new developments to keep us all confused but the simple VLB has been around for over a year and is becoming the new standard for speeding up the old ISA bus technology. At least a standard for the next few months <g>