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| 2912.1 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Mon Feb 10 1997 11:17 | 4 |
| I've never heard of such - it would be rather overkill for the bandwidth
requirements, driving up the cost of the card for no real benefit.
Steve
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| 2912.2 | | TARKIN::LIN | Bill Lin | Tue Feb 11 1997 07:07 | 9 |
| re: BRITE::FYFE
Hi Doug,
If you installed a PCI "toy" such a certain M-JPEG video capture card,
it comes with audio. Other than that, I haven't seen any audio-only
PCI cards.
/Bill
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| 2912.3 | | POMPY::LESLIE | Andy Leslie, DEC man walking... | Fri Feb 14 1997 05:45 | 3 |
| The AWE 64 was advertised as PCI.
The advert may, of course, be incorrect.
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| 2912.4 | | PCBUOA::BAYJ | Jim, Portables | Fri Feb 14 1997 16:04 | 8 |
| I just bought a new Mother board, and was interested to note that it
had four PCI slots and three ISA slots (one shared). It seems like the
balance is shifting, and probably won't be long before traditionally
low band-width ISA devices start moving to PCI just on general
principles.
jeb
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| 2912.5 | | STRWRS::KOCH_P | It never hurts to ask... | Sat Feb 15 1997 09:45 | 8 |
|
What would be nice is if someone built a decent PCI card which had
multiple functions which would replace multiple ISA boards. If my
information is correct, most PCs don't have more than 4 PCI slots
because to go to more would be cost prohibitive. I think the direction
for ISA card replacement is probably Universal Serial Bus. Only when we
have USB peripherals will you see ISA slot devices going away. I think
on just cost, ISA devices will go USB, not PCI.
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| 2912.6 | | BULEAN::BANKS | Orthogonality is your friend | Tue Feb 18 1997 08:04 | 5 |
| I'd imagine more PCI slots being cost prohibitive has more to do with what
the MB's chipset is electrically capable of driving. PCI buses can be
bridged (albeit with some moderate performance penalty), and cards like the
Adaptec 3940 actually have an on-card PCI bridge, so it can't be too hugely
expensive.
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| 2912.7 | PCI sound card | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Fri Mar 07 1997 09:05 | 75 |
| The following message about a PCI audio card came across my desk this
morning. I've edited it somewhat to fit in an 80-character window.
It asks the question about compatibility, because only VGA adapters
in PCI are allowed to work at legacy (ISA) fixed addresses; all other
PCI devices use whatever addresses and interrupts they get assigned at
boot time (PnP).
From: US1RMC::"[email protected]" 7-MAR-1997 06:42:21.84
To: Mailing List Recipients <[email protected]>
CC:
Subj: Fwd: Processor moves audio from ISA to PCI bus
> Processor moves audio from ISA to PCI bus
>
> S3 Inc. has entered the mainstream audio market with the
> introduction of its SonicVibes audio processor. It is the
> first single-chip processor to move audio acceleration from
> the ISA bus to the PCI bus. This represents a
> substantial increase in performance as the PCI bus supports
> more than 100MB/s bandwidth compared to the
> ISA bus, which supports only 6MB/s.
>
> The SonicVibes provides 100 percent compatibility with
> SoundBlaster Pro games, DOS and Windows applications
> as well as backward compatibility with the ISA bus.
>
> Pricing starts at $30 each in volumes of 10,000 pieces.
>
> Fax 1-408-9805444
> E-mail [email protected]
> Web site http://www.S3.com
>
> Source:
> http://www.asiansources.com/components/9703/ACTIVE2C.HTM#mi02
HM...
I thought only VGA devices had these compatiblity
features???
Can we expect COM1, COM2 and Parallel Port "over PCI"
too???
+++chefren
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