VLB SCSI?

I'm not sure what you mean by slower. I found that no matter how fast the mfg claims the CPU is running, it does DOS tasks about as fast as a 133 MHz Pentium, and I also found that the difference in performance between these VIP boards at 133 MHz (not for comparison, but just for reference) and the 150 MHz 6x86's that I was using back in '92..'94, was not perceptible. The 6x86 boards were equipped with ISA and PCI, but no VLB, BTW. I suppose someone will eventually build a motherboard that runs fast enough so that when the PCI peripheral interface fails it still saves time to power down the system, swap the offending device, and restart, but that time isn't here yet. It's true that it's possible to build a faster interface on PCI than on VLB. That doesn't mean that the makers of a given circuit did that, however. I doubt that a motherboard designed with both VLB and PCI is necessarily slower than one with PCI only. The VLB is more tightly coupled to the CPU than is the PCI, which is capable of running both faster and slower than the CPU without ill effects, while the VLB did force the CPU to match its rate when it was doing buisness with it. If you stop and think about it, the CPU has to synchronize with the process that's running on the I/O bus anyway, so it's the process rate that effects the CPU speed, not the bus on which it's happening. Of course the clock effects the timing increment ... however minute that might be. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Fernandez" <fernande(a)internet1.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:08 AM Subject: Re: VLB SCSI? It but