> 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.

IBM? IBM was pushing MicroChannel; EISA was a response by some other
vendors to IBM's atrocious terms for MCA technology. Both lost; first
to a proliferation of wacky 486-era local bus crud, then to PCI.

        - Nathan