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  ISA - Industry Standard Architecture, Instruction-Set Architecture, Interactive Services Association, Internet ...
Eventually, the ISA connector was stretched to allow 16-bits of data to pass through each clock cycle, bringing its speed to between 8 and 10 MHz.
Industry Standard Architecture - ISA is a standard bus (computer interconnection) architecture that is associated with the IBM AT motherboard.
ISA (Industry Standard Architechture) is the 16-bit bus architecture used in the older IBM PC/XT and PC/AT PCs, and the AT version of this bus became the industry standard.
www.auditmypc.com /acronym/ISA.asp   (990 words)

  
 ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) Definition
Stands for "Industry Standard Architecture." ISA is a type of bus used in PCs for adding expansion cards.
The original 8-bit version of ISA was introduced in 1981 but the technology did not become widely used until 1984, when the 16-bit version was released.
However, by the end of the twentieth century, ISA ports were beginning to be replaced by faster PCI and AGP slots.
www.techterms.org /definition/isa   (183 words)

  
 EISA - Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) is a bus architecture designed for PCs using an Intel 80386, 80486, or Pentium microprocessor.
An acronym for Extended Industry Standard Architecture (an extension of the (ISA) Industry Standard Architecture).
This is a bus standard that extends the AT bus architecture to 32-bits and allows more than one CPU to share the bus.
www.auditmypc.com /acronym/EISA.asp   (796 words)

  
 Meaning of Industry standard architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to ISA) is a bus standard for IBM compatibles introduced in 1984 that extends the XT bus architecture to 16 bits.
In reference to the XT bus architecture it is sometimes referred to as the AT bus architecture.
Upon the end of the 1990s, ISA's popularity started to wane, and most IBM PC motherboards began to be designed with several PCI slots but with few if any ISA slots.
abbreviations.virtualsplat.com /meaning/computer-hardware/isa.asp   (147 words)

  
 Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) Bus Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The choices made in defining the main characteristics of the ISA bus--its width and speed--can be seen by looking at the processors with which it was paired on early machines.
The original ISA bus on the IBM PC was 8 bits wide, reflecting the 8 bit data width of the Intel 8088 processor's system bus, and ran at 4.77 MHz, again, the speed of the first 8088s.
In 1984 the IBM AT was introduced using the Intel 80286; at this time the bus was doubled to 16 bits (the 80286's data bus width) and increased to 8 MHz (the maximum speed of the original AT, which came in 6 MHz and 8 MHz versions).
www.orbitmicro.com /product_lines/riser_cards/isa_definition.html   (538 words)

  
 Bus Types
ISA is a standard bus (computer interconnection) architecture that is associated with the IBM AT motherboard.
EISA is a standard bus (computer interconnection) architecture that extends the Industry Standard Architecture standard to a 32-bit interface.
MCA was a distinct break from previous bus architectures such as Industry Standard Architecture.
members.fortunecity.com /snackwell/help/bustypes.htm   (1257 words)

  
 EISA(Extended Industry Standard Architecture)
EISA is a superset of the ISA 8 and 16-bit architecture, extending the capabilities of ISA while still maintaining compatibility with ISA expansion boards.
Unfortunately, motherboard manufacturers discovered that EISA architecture and their ensuing EISA architecture peripheral cards were much more costly to produce than an ISA card was.
The memory refresh controller, the active DMA channel with the highest priority and peripherals vying for bus control compete for ownership of the bus by means of a three-way sharing scheme controlled by the EISA arbitration unit, the Integrated System Peripheral chip.
www.faculty.iu-bremen.de /birk/lectures/PC101-2003/10bus/site/EISA.htm   (765 words)

  
 TechFest - EISA Bus Technical Summary
ISA 8-bit and 16-bit expansion boards can be installed into the ISA compatible portion of the EISA slot.
During ISA Compatible DMA cycles, MRDC* is asserted for read accesses to memory addresses between 00000000h to 00FFFFFFh, regardless of the type of memory responding.
An ISA memory slave asserts NOWS* (No Wait State) after its address and a command have been decoded to indicate that the remaining clock cycles are not required.
www.techfest.com /hardware/bus/eisa.htm   (4550 words)

  
 TechFest - ISA Bus Technical Summary
The Industry Standard Architecture, or ISA, bus originated in the early 1980s at an IBM development lab in Boca Raton, Florida.
In response, the industry coined "ISA" as a new name for the bus that was eventually adopted by everyone including IBM.
Over time various ISA bus specifications were produced in an attempt to alleviate the compatibility problems.
www.techfest.com /hardware/bus/isa.htm   (1764 words)

  
 Extended Industry Standard Architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced "eee-suh") is a bus standard for IBM compatible computers.
It was announced in late 1988 by PC clone vendors (the "Gang of Nine") as a counter to IBM's use of its proprietary MicroChannel Architecture (MCA) in its PS/2 series.
EISA extends the ISA bus architecture to 32 bits and allows more than one CPU to share the bus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extended_Industry_Standard_Architecture   (347 words)

  
 Industry Standard Architecture (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
'''Industry Standard Architecture''' (in practice almost always shortened to ISA) is a computer bus Standard for IBM compatibles.
Five [[16-bit and one 8-bit ISA slots on a motherboard]] In 1987, IBM moved to replace the ISA bus with their proprietary Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) in an effort to regain control of the PC architecture, and the PC market.
This was a major contributor to the use of the phrase "plug-n-pray." PCI slots were the first physically-incompatible expansion ports to directly squeeze ISA off of the motherboard.
industry-standard-architecture.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (606 words)

  
 The debate about open architecture
The PC industry is an example of an "open" revolution, although standards arose out of the dominance of a few hardware and software developers.
The PC industry was born around an off-the-shelf hardware bus (the ISA, or industry standard architecture) and Microsoft DOS and subsequently Windows.
If everyone in the access control industry followed these standards, the customer could choose the best fit for their organization in each category, buying the access control system from one vendor, the badging system from another, the time-and-attendance system from another and the hardware from yet another.
securitysolutions.com /mag/security_debate_open_architecture   (2151 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
While most of the attention today is given to the current local bus standard, PCI, and the new AGP port that is likely to become the next standard interface for video, these have evolved from a series of older buses that you will still find in service today on older PCs.
Unlike ISA, here the name is not indicative of reality, for the EISA bus never became widely used and cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered an industry standard.
The ISA bus, still running at the same speed and bus width that it did on the IBM AT, was finally and totally outmatched by these increasing demands and became a major bottleneck to improving system performance.
www.cs.ntu.edu.au /homepages/jeff/BUSES.HTM   (2097 words)

  
 Extended Industry Standard Architecture : EISA
The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to EISA) is a bus standard for IBM compatibles that extends the ISA bus architecture to 32 bits and allows more than one CPU to share the bus.
EISA was announced in late 1988 by compatible vendors as a counter to IBM's MCA in its PS/2 series.
Article based on Extended Industry Standard Architecture (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=extended+industry+standard+architecture) at FOLDOC (http://www.foldoc.org), used with permission.
www.fastload.org /ei/EISA.html   (155 words)

  
 PRIMEQUEST server line offers mission-critical server platforms on industry-standard architecture
Founded to boost the availability of Itanium solutions, ISA will facilitate the delivery of a suite of enabling programs targeted at enterprise and technical computing developers.
The PRIMEQUEST server architecture provides a high degree of platform fault immunity with up to eight highly available, independent and hardware isolated partitions - each one being a fully independent 'server' within the system.
This means for example that computers and database resources can be dynamically aligned to applications and the result is increased flexibility and reliability, as well as considerable improvement in the cost-effectiveness of the IT infrastructure.
www.itweb.co.za /office/fujitsu/PressRelease.asp?StoryID=155711   (600 words)

  
 Definitions for Common Acronyms
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) - 8 bit and 16 bit expansion slots used by PC, XT, and AT designs.
EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) - Developed by several independent manufacturers (Compaq, AST, Zenith, Tandy, etc.) to standardize 32 bit operation and combat IBM's MCA.
This is the standard density for MFM encoding.
www.actionfront.com /hdacron.html   (669 words)

  
 Hardware and Software Industry Standards for the Embedded Computing Market   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mercury is a strong proponent of open industry standards that enable innovation and interoperability.
The VXS standard serves as the latest in a 20-year series of evolutionary improvements for the VME architecture.
The XMC standard adds a high-speed parallel or serial fabric interface to the popular PCI mezzanine card (PMC) form factor, which is ubiquitous in embedded computing.
www.mc.com /technologies/standards.cfm   (1260 words)

  
 Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) Bus
The ISA bus eventually became a bottleneck to performance and was augmented with additional high-speed buses, but ISA persists because of the truly enormous base of existing peripherals using the standard.
Also, there are still many devices for which the ISA's speed is more than sufficient, and will be for some time to come (standard modems being an example).
Market leaders Intel and Microsoft want to move the industry away from the use of the ISA bus in new machines.
www.pcguide.com /ref/mbsys/buses/types/olderISA-c.html   (576 words)

  
 Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) Devices Do Not Function After Hot Docking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
When you connect your notebook computer to the docking bay, the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) devices in the docking bay do not function.
When you are using Windows Millennium Edition (Me) or Windows 98 Second Edition, you are not prompted to restart the computer to enable the ISA devices in the docking bay.
If you connect your computer to the docking bay while it is running, you must restart the computer to enable the ISA devices that are installed in the docking bay.
support.microsoft.com /kb/261624/en-us   (208 words)

  
 MIPS Technologies, Inc.: Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Developed more than 20 years ago at Stanford University, the MIPS architecture is a simple, streamlined, highly scalable RISC architecture.
The MIPS32® and MIPS64® instruction-set architectures, which are seamlessly compatible, allowing customers to port from one generation to the next while preserving their investment in existing software
In addition, the MIPS architecture is one of the most widely supported of all processor architectures, with a broad infrastructure of standard tools, software and services to help ensure rapid, reliable, cost-effective development.
www.mips.com /content/Products/Architecture   (254 words)

  
 A high-performance measurement coprocessor for personal computers - Industry Standard Architecture, HP Vectra computers ...
A high-performance measurement coprocessor for personal computers - Industry Standard Architecture, HP Vectra computers - includes related articles on a measurement coprocessor application-specific integrated circuit and a history of measurement coprocessors - Technical
This plug-in card brings test and measurement coprocessing power to ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) personal computers with greater calculation speed and better HP-IB performance than its predecessor.
The HP 82324A high-performance measurement coprocessor is a plug-in card for HP Vectra and compatible computers that turns an ordinary PC into a multiprocessing test and measurement workstation.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n2_v43/ai_12068856   (1027 words)

  
 Software for the HP EISA SCSI card - Extended Industry Standard Architecture, Small Computer System Interface cards for ...
Two software architectures, one offline and the other online, are used to provide EISA SCSI support for the HP 9000 Series 700 workstations.
In this architecture the HP-UX kernel, on behalf of a user process, starts an I/O operation by invoking a peripheral device driver through an open, read, write, or close procedure.
Processor dependent code provides a standard uniform access to certain basic operations of the system such as system reset and boot, system information (e.g., time of day), and the ability to load I/O dependent code.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HPJ/is_n6_v43/ai_13079341   (979 words)

  
 Print the story
Today, AMD announces it is demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor.
The AMD64 architecture is also designed to enhance the security of your computing environment by integrating Enhanced Virus Protection technology enabled by advanced anti-virus features in Windows(R) XP Service Pack 2 and the upcoming Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.
In addition to being the first to help eliminate the bottlenecks inherent in x86 front-side bus architectures, AMD is now demonstrating the capabilities of being the first to directly connect two cores on the same die along with the memory controller, I/O and other processors - which will improve the overall system performance and efficiency.
www.physorg.com /printnews.php?newsid=1012   (894 words)

  
 InfiniBand Architecture - Mellanox Technologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The availability of MPI/Pro for InfiniBand represents an important milestone for this industry standard architecture, as HPC applications are now enabled for 10Gb/sec InfiniBand performance.
The InfiniBand Architecture provides a high performance low latency communication that HPC servers require, while delivering the economics that only an industry standard can provide.
Based on an industry standard with reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability features designed in from the ground up, InfiniBand provides the most robust data center interconnect solution available.
www.mellanox.com /news/press/_notes/pr_111302a.html   (897 words)

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