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EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture)

EISA is a standard bus (computer interconnection) architecture that extends the ISA standard to a 32-bit interface. It was developed in part as an open alternative to the proprietary Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) that IBM introduced in its PS/2 computers.

EISA data transfer can reach a peak of 33 megabytes per second.

This was last updated in April 2005
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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