Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: System bus standards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??) | Date | Sat, 05 Sep 1998 08:43:40 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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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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