Re: tlug: Another TLUG Server Request

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> hehe, EISA, that's funny :)

Why?  My 50MHz 486 box has been beating up 90 and 120 MHz Pentium
boxes for as long as the latter have been around.  Couldn't do it
without the AMI EISA/VLB SCSI host (all right, the 4MB cache on the
SCSI host may have more to do with it).  I don't regret the decision
to buy EISA, though; you can't get VLB parts any more, but EISA stuff
you can.  Yes, the 3Com ethernet card cost about twice what a PCI card
would have and is slower, but only about 1% of what replacing the
whole system would have cost....

And there's no question that the no-brainer for improving performance
("add more RAM") was a lot more effective in terms of my time than
investing in learning about PCI and pipelined architectures.

:-)

The machine will go away (rather, become a toy/museum piece) in the
not too distant future, though, because I need more RAM, and can't get
it (seems nobody is making 60-some-pin 16MB SIMMs any more, and I've
run out of slots for 4MB SIMMs).  *sigh*  I hate to lose old friends.

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