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They must have been fancy to use PCI. I would have expected ISA of AGP.
by ecopoesis 6y ago
They must have been fancy to use PCI. I would have expected ISA of AGP.
- jimsmart 6y agoPCI was in fact pretty standard for graphics cards, in the period between ISA and AGP. Edit: link https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/graphics-beginners,1288-4.html https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/graphics-beginners,1...
- throwaway87521 6y agoWell, now I feel old.
- barrkel 6y agoPCI graphics was standard around the time of Windows 3.11 and into Windows 95. Major difference in UI speed vs EISA graphics. I used to work as a hardware technician in a local computer shop as a summer / weekend job back then. I installed dozens of 4mb Cirrus Logic PCI graphics cards when building PCs.
- jzer0cool 6y agoIf I remember, AGP did not come out until later. The motherboard multiple ISA and 1 PCI slot if I recall right. In fact I was testing VGA and also sound cards on the ISA slot. So checking sound and playing some mpeg video file. I can maybe write up a short post about this if anyone would be interested more. At home, away from work, I owned a mac which was running the power pc processor. And that was also 25 mhz. What I remember was how everything seemed integrated (e.g. not upgradable. Young me could not understand why there was no graphics card. I could only upgrade here the hard drive, or simm memory)