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Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... 
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> So was EISA.  The point is that we didn't need a VLB bus and we almost
> certainly didn't need PCI - we just needed to finish making EISA
> better (wider and faster) and we'd have then seen motherboards with 8
> or more *entirely general purpose* slots, not this split bus crap we
> see now.  The decision to kill EISA was a pure marketing one - nobody
> 					Jordan

Exactly. It's just very discouraging to have to know that nothing it 
consistent and you basically have to kludge everything on the ibm pc 
platform.

== Chris Layne ==============================================================
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