26 Oct
2001
26 Oct
'01
7:20 p.m.
The combination of VLB and PCI apparently is the only way you can use fast
ethernet together with solid, reliable, proven SCSI. ISA doesn't support fast
ethernet, and from what I've seen, neither does VLB, though those 2842's are
hard to beat. The 2940's surely don't do the job. I've still got about 75
of
them out there that I visit from time to time, and their owners are, in nearly
all cases loath to part with them. They give little or no trouble, all but half
a dozen or so are running Win95 or 98 with few complaints. That one particular
board seems to have had the formula.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: <gwynp(a)artware.qc.ca>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: VLB SCSI?
On 25-Oct-2001 Chad Fernandez wrote:
I would consider VLB to be classic, or at least
"legacy". I guess it
depends on the definition. I don't think any VLB cards have been
shipped for quite some time. They were mainly a 486 class bus. Did any
Pentium or 386 class motherboards come with VLB slots?
IIRC, my first Pentium motherboard that had VLB, ISA and PCI. I don't
think I still have it though. At one point, I gave it to my SO (at the
time) who brought it into to a PC shop to have it installed in her
computer (which was a 486). The tech muttered something about "I'd hoped
never to meet a motherboard that had both VLB and PCI".
-Philip