how to kludge a 486 PC into thinking it has a video card?

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Mon Feb 21 13:44:06 2005

Rumor has it that Jon Auringer may have mentioned these words:
>Jules Richardson wrote:
>
>> I've just been given one board that has 16bit ISA, PCI *and* VLB all
>> on the same motherboard, which is a new one on me.
>
>Give it back to whomever gave it to you. The combination boards were all
>terrible performers and often unreliable.

Where's the fun in that??? I was thinking: Skeet. ;-)

Otherwise, you're right - every benchmark I'd ever seen with those showed
they were slower by 10% to 25% compared to a non-combo board.

Also, IIRC: Vesa Local Bus was quite a bit faster than PCI of the same era
(PCI max a the time was 33Mhz, VLB was 40Mhz, maybe faster) and the slots
were still 16-bit ISA compatible -- but they were a 'licenced and
practicing bitch'[1] to insert and remove.

Once again, the physically simpler but technically inferior standard won
out... ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

[1] Read a book back in high school about Jaguars -- this phrase was in
reference to replacing one of the drive belts.. ;-)

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