A computer can not be separated from the motherboard, other than a place to install the processor and memory, there is also the installation of other cards such as VGA Card, Sound Card, Modem Card, Lan Card, etc..
In its development, computers have evolved, sepertihalnya for VGA slot, progressing from EISA slot using Mono chrome VGA card, and then developed with a color VGA ISA slot, and VGA grown steadily apart from the ISA slot to slot AGP 2x, AGP 4x to 8x, and continues to experience growth until now known as PCI-Express slot for VGA card.
For others like Sound card, Lan Card, to model today's motherboards are already using Onboard facilities, even to vga onboard as well. So the smaller the motherboard because there is no slot ESIA and only comes as much as 2 ISA slots.
To know the development of a card slot on the computer let's try to discuss it:
EISA
Bus EISA (Extended / Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture) bus is an I / O, introduced in September 1988 as a response to the launch by IBM's MCA bus, given that IBM wanted to "monopolize" the bus MCA to require others to pay royalties to license the MCA. This standard was developed by several vendors IBM PC Compatible, in addition to IBM, although that greatly contributed to the Compaq Computer Corporation. Compaq EISA also likely to form the Committee, a nonprofit organization designed specifically to regulate the development of the EISA bus. In addition to Compaq, there are several other companies that developed the EISA if sorted, then the collection company can be termed as WATCHZONE:
Wyse
AT & T
Tandy Corporation
Compaq Computer Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
Zenith
Olivetti
NEC
Epson
Although offering significant improvement when compared with the 16-bit ISA, EISA-based cards only a few on the market (or developed). That was just a hard disk array controller card (SCSI / RAID), and the server network card.
EISA bus is basically a 32-bit version of an ordinary ISA bus. Not as MCA from IBM really new (architecture and design their slots), users can still use 8-bit ISA cards or 16-bit long into the EISA slots, so this has added value: backward compatibility (backward compatibility ). Like the MCA bus, EISA EISA card also allows the configuration automatically using the software, so you could say EISA and MCA is the pioneer of "plug-and-play", though still primitive.
ISA
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) is a bus architecture with a data bus width of 8-bit IBM PC was introduced in 5150 on 12 August 1981. ISA bus is updated by adding the data bus width to 16-bit on IBM PC / AT in 1984, so this type of outstanding ISA bus is divided into two parts, namely the ISA 16-bit and 8-bit ISA. ISA is the basic and most common bus used in IBM PC until 1995, before being replaced by PCI bus, which was launched in 1992.
8-bit ISA
8-bit ISA bus is a variant of the ISA bus, the bus width of 8-bit data, which are used in IBM PC 5150 (initial PC model). This bus has been abandoned in modern systems to the top but Intel 286/386 systems still have it. This bus speed is 4.77 MHz (same as Intel 8088 processor in the IBM PC), before 8:33 MHz upgraded to the IBM PC / AT. Because it has a bandwidth of 8-bit, then it has a maximum transfer rate is 4.77 Mbyte / sec or 8:33 Mbyte / sec. Despite having a slow transfer rate, including the sufficiency of this bus at the time, because the buses I / O ports like serial, parallel ports, floppy disk controller, keyboard controller and the other is very slow. This slot has 62 connectors.
Although a simple design, IBM did not immediately publish the specifications when it launched in 1981, but had to wait until 1987, so that the supporting device manufacturers a little inconvenience to make the 8-bit ISA-based.
16-bit ISA
16-bit ISA bus is an ISA bus has a bandwidth 16-bit, allowing the transfer rate is two times faster than the 8-bit ISA at the same speed. This bus was introduced in 1984, when IBM released the IBM PC / AT with the Intel 80286 microprocessor in it. Why IBM increases to 16-bit ISA is because the Intel 80286 has a data bus which has a width of 16-bit, so that communication between the processor, memory, and motherboard should be done in 16-bit ordinal. Although these processors can be installed on the motherboard that has the I / O bus with a bandwidth of 8-bit, this can menyababkan the bottleneck on the bus system in question.
Instead of creating a bus I / O is a new, IBM was just a little overhaul of the design of ISA 8-bit long, ie, by adding a connector 16-bit extensions (which add 36 connectors, making it 98 connector), which was first launched in August 1984, the same year when IBM PC / AT was launched. It's also the reason why 16-bit ISA referred to as the AT-bus. This indeed makes the interference with some 8-bit ISA cards, so IBM left this design, to a design in which two slots are combined into one slot.
PCI
PCI (an extension of the English language: Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus which is designed to handle some hardware. PCI bus standard was developed by a consortium of the PCI Special Interest Group formed by the Intel Corporation and several other companies, in 1992. Purpose of the establishment of this bus is to replace the bus ISA / EISA previously used in the IBM PC or compatibles.
Old computer using ISA slot, which is a slow bus. Since its emergence around 1992, the PCI bus still in use today, to get out the latest version of PCI Express (add-on).
In its development, computers have evolved, sepertihalnya for VGA slot, progressing from EISA slot using Mono chrome VGA card, and then developed with a color VGA ISA slot, and VGA grown steadily apart from the ISA slot to slot AGP 2x, AGP 4x to 8x, and continues to experience growth until now known as PCI-Express slot for VGA card.
For others like Sound card, Lan Card, to model today's motherboards are already using Onboard facilities, even to vga onboard as well. So the smaller the motherboard because there is no slot ESIA and only comes as much as 2 ISA slots.
To know the development of a card slot on the computer let's try to discuss it:
EISA
Bus EISA (Extended / Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture) bus is an I / O, introduced in September 1988 as a response to the launch by IBM's MCA bus, given that IBM wanted to "monopolize" the bus MCA to require others to pay royalties to license the MCA. This standard was developed by several vendors IBM PC Compatible, in addition to IBM, although that greatly contributed to the Compaq Computer Corporation. Compaq EISA also likely to form the Committee, a nonprofit organization designed specifically to regulate the development of the EISA bus. In addition to Compaq, there are several other companies that developed the EISA if sorted, then the collection company can be termed as WATCHZONE:
Wyse
AT & T
Tandy Corporation
Compaq Computer Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
Zenith
Olivetti
NEC
Epson
Although offering significant improvement when compared with the 16-bit ISA, EISA-based cards only a few on the market (or developed). That was just a hard disk array controller card (SCSI / RAID), and the server network card.
EISA bus is basically a 32-bit version of an ordinary ISA bus. Not as MCA from IBM really new (architecture and design their slots), users can still use 8-bit ISA cards or 16-bit long into the EISA slots, so this has added value: backward compatibility (backward compatibility ). Like the MCA bus, EISA EISA card also allows the configuration automatically using the software, so you could say EISA and MCA is the pioneer of "plug-and-play", though still primitive.
ISA
ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) is a bus architecture with a data bus width of 8-bit IBM PC was introduced in 5150 on 12 August 1981. ISA bus is updated by adding the data bus width to 16-bit on IBM PC / AT in 1984, so this type of outstanding ISA bus is divided into two parts, namely the ISA 16-bit and 8-bit ISA. ISA is the basic and most common bus used in IBM PC until 1995, before being replaced by PCI bus, which was launched in 1992.
8-bit ISA
8-bit ISA bus is a variant of the ISA bus, the bus width of 8-bit data, which are used in IBM PC 5150 (initial PC model). This bus has been abandoned in modern systems to the top but Intel 286/386 systems still have it. This bus speed is 4.77 MHz (same as Intel 8088 processor in the IBM PC), before 8:33 MHz upgraded to the IBM PC / AT. Because it has a bandwidth of 8-bit, then it has a maximum transfer rate is 4.77 Mbyte / sec or 8:33 Mbyte / sec. Despite having a slow transfer rate, including the sufficiency of this bus at the time, because the buses I / O ports like serial, parallel ports, floppy disk controller, keyboard controller and the other is very slow. This slot has 62 connectors.
Although a simple design, IBM did not immediately publish the specifications when it launched in 1981, but had to wait until 1987, so that the supporting device manufacturers a little inconvenience to make the 8-bit ISA-based.
16-bit ISA
16-bit ISA bus is an ISA bus has a bandwidth 16-bit, allowing the transfer rate is two times faster than the 8-bit ISA at the same speed. This bus was introduced in 1984, when IBM released the IBM PC / AT with the Intel 80286 microprocessor in it. Why IBM increases to 16-bit ISA is because the Intel 80286 has a data bus which has a width of 16-bit, so that communication between the processor, memory, and motherboard should be done in 16-bit ordinal. Although these processors can be installed on the motherboard that has the I / O bus with a bandwidth of 8-bit, this can menyababkan the bottleneck on the bus system in question.
Instead of creating a bus I / O is a new, IBM was just a little overhaul of the design of ISA 8-bit long, ie, by adding a connector 16-bit extensions (which add 36 connectors, making it 98 connector), which was first launched in August 1984, the same year when IBM PC / AT was launched. It's also the reason why 16-bit ISA referred to as the AT-bus. This indeed makes the interference with some 8-bit ISA cards, so IBM left this design, to a design in which two slots are combined into one slot.
PCI
PCI (an extension of the English language: Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus which is designed to handle some hardware. PCI bus standard was developed by a consortium of the PCI Special Interest Group formed by the Intel Corporation and several other companies, in 1992. Purpose of the establishment of this bus is to replace the bus ISA / EISA previously used in the IBM PC or compatibles.
Old computer using ISA slot, which is a slow bus. Since its emergence around 1992, the PCI bus still in use today, to get out the latest version of PCI Express (add-on).