[rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards

[Kay]

whoever had the VLB boards they are gonna toss email me offlist ... i would
like them all..

regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at celestrion.net>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards


> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:49:18PM -0500, Kevin Loch wrote:
> > Kevin wrote:
> > > I paid like $350 for a 2meg VLB Diamond Viper, but that was
> > > probably much later than you guys are referring to.
> > > Probably around August/September 1993. Still have that card
> > > working in my 66.
> > >
> > > Wasn't VLB faster in some tests than the first gen PCI stuff
> > > was?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, VLB could run at 40MHz (on a dx2-80 or 120)
> > but pci maxed out at 33MHz.  VLB also
> > probably had lower latency since there was
> > no controller interface?
>
> Didn't VLB also run at 50mhz on DX50 machines?
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