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Article #489Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: th... Tom Hong
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 16:27
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 16:27
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In article <3bdqva$7...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, James Hogan <j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote: >>I believe there is no difference between VLB and PCI, performance-wise, on >>a 486. If you have the choice, however, go for the PCI. > >Why? :) (Not trying to be a smart-ass, I'm just not extremely >knowledgable about video cards.) Any reasons other than the fact that >you'll be able to keep the PCI if you upgrade to a Pentium? Actually, PCI has some performance edge over VLB. PCI can configure IRQs, DMAs and addresses for your PCI cards if there is a conflict with ISA cards already plugged-in. A PCI IDE controller can also sense what hard disks are connected (but these have to be recent IDE drives). PCI also uses burst DMA so has greater bandwidth than VLB. TRH Sends
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