[News] Pictures of Mediator in Action | ANN.lu |
Posted on 04-Sep-2000 08:11 GMT by Henrik Mikael Kristensen | 49 comments View flat View list |
In an ANN Mediator article discussion a link to http://www.elbox.com/press is mentioned (for those of you who missed it). It contains pretty good pictures of the Mediator in action. Unfortunately it will probably suffer from the competition from the Predator AGP-board.
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Pictures of Mediator in Action : Comment 49 of 49 | ANN.lu |
Posted by tronman on 07-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT | Hey
Actually, irq's and dma's are X86 ONLY!!! The PCI bus itself is not limited and actually doesn't need these to function in and of itself. Its autoconfig mechanism is more akin to Zorro than to ISA. I said akin to, not the same. It is actually more thorough than Zorro, but most PC expansion card makers don't really use all of what's actually there in the PCI configuration space. So I don't think that IRQ's and DMA's are the big issue here. PCI is actually not limited at all by the nr. of IRQ's in an X86 PC. It was designed to be processor neutral, it can work with any architecture. What you see on the PC is X86/M$ legacy based ability to be expanded, not the limitations of PCI. |
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