Back when the IBM PC was new, laying out an ISA board was a daunting task. You probably didn’t have a very fast ‘scope, if ...

Today's embedded applications target the PC architecture that users have accepted beyond anyone's wildest dreams for both business and personal use. This is a wide-open target, supported by a vast ...

From what i know, an adapter that converts an ISA card to a PCI wouldn't work very well. PCI has 4 physical interrupt pins (INT A,B,C,D) that can be used in different ...

The early days of home computing were quite a jungle of different standards and convoluted solutions to make one piece of hardware work on as many different platforms as possible. IBM’s PC was an ...

In a nutshell: CPU Galaxy is reportedly preparing to host a challenge in which participants must get Doom to run at an average of 25 frames per second using an ISA card. That is no easy task but at ...

CompactPCI has become popular lately. But for all its mechanical and electrical features, including hot-swap, vertical seating and good cooling characteristics, it's not a good choice for many ...