What is the bit width of the EISA bus?
- 16
- 8
- 64
- 32
EXPLANATION
The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) is a bus
standard for IBM PC compatible computers. It was announced in September
1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors (the "Gang of Nine") as a
counter to IBM's use of its proprietary Micro Channel architecture (MCA)
in its PS/2 series.
EISA extends the AT bus, which the Gang of Nine
retroactively renamed to the ISA bus to avoid infringing IBM's trademark
on its PC/AT computer,
to 32 bits and allows more than one CPU to share
the bus. The bus mastering support is also enhanced to provide access
to 4 GB of memory. Unlike MCA, EISA can accept older XT and ISA boards —
the lines and slots for EISA are a superset of ISA.
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