From: dgarrett@engr.LaTech.edu (Don Garrett) Subject: Re: NFAQ: Do ISA cards cripple EISA performance ? Date: 9 Apr 1993 23:24:53 GMT
Anders Skar (anderss@edb.tih.no) wrote:
: Alec Muffett - Sun IS - System Administrator (alecm@coyote.uk.sun.com) wrote:
: : I've heard from a friend that if you have an EISA machine, and install
: : an ISA card of any sort, the bus performance will drop to that of an
: : ordinary ISA bus.
Well, it's sort of true. You should get ISA performace.... but only
from the ISA card. For the majority of your secondary stuff (modems,
sound cards, etc) it doesn't make a whit of difference, because they
just couldn't make use of any more bandwidth.