Subject: Re: EISA Vs. PCI on big mean news machine
To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/09/1995 13:54:05
> This is all nice and accurate (but unattainable), but the real reason to
> go with PCI is because its new and accepted and EISA is old and dying.
> Many vendors are developing PCI products, few (if any) are developing 
>  EISA products. Since PCI is more widely used, there are more products 
> and they're less expensive....and PCI is 4X faster.
> 
> Dennis
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Emerging Technologies, Inc.      http://www.etinc.com

This is why big server vendors, either don't have PCI at all, or only
a couple PCI slots, but around 8 EISA slots?  The Compaq 4500 has 0
(zero) PCI slots, and the HP LS has 2 or 3.  Interesting, if EISA
is really dead, why these guys are making such a mistake?  Could it
be that the Triton chipset is just too damn limiting for _real_ servers?

-Andrew
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