Robert Kennedy wrote:

> machine with PCI and EISA. It's a 486 motherboard with PCI slots and
> 16-bit ISA slots. What's the difference between ISA and EISA?

  No, EISA is not 16-bit ISA.  IBM invented EISA as a
backward-compatible, but more advanced bus system.  However, it (esp.
the cards) remained quite expensive and were never quite adopted by
other vendors.

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene