On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Brian Mahoney wrote:
> An isa DX2-66? Interesting/curious. There were ones for the Macs (PC
> compatability cards) but I can't think of a purpose (right now anyway) for
> an isa card like that. I wish shipping to Canada wasn't ridiculous.
This would be used in conjunction with a passive backplane, e.g. a board
with just ISA slots. The processor then fills one slot. Usually there
are 8 or more slots. It's typically for big rackmount PCs where you need
a lot of slots for specialized boards such as telephony boards or whatnot.
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Received on Sat Apr 17 2004 - 16:44:53 BST