Re: System bus standards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??)
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 05 Sep 1998 08:43:40 -0300
In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809050830050.1838-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>,
Alex
Buell writes:
+-----
| On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
| > Unfortunately, I can guess: as soon as your design includes PCI you're up
| > the creek. Intel has you by the short ones. (And just try selling someone
| > on a motherboard that doesn't support PCI.)
|
| This might not be an issue anymore; I just heard today that IBM/Compaq and
| some other company (name escapes me for the moment) have got together and
| designed a new PCI specification [PCIx] that's supposedly runs at 133Mhz
| and can transfer up to a gigabyte a second. They left Intel out of the
+--->8
Saw that. I'm with a comment I also saw on it: how compatible is it with
the current spec?
| Heh, let me know the reaction. :o)
+--->8
Your description wasn't something I'd consider pointing them to; not
detailed enough. :-(
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university
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