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SubjectRe: System bus standards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??)
DateSat, 05 Sep 1998 08:43:40 -0300
From"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <>
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.  :-(

-- 
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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