There are few computing collapses more spectacular than the downfall of Commodore, but its rise as a home computer powerhouse ...

The ISA bus has some very serious limitations. Even with expansion slots, it is incapable of supporting current-generation I/O requirements, which have evolved from 8/16-bit ISA bus access to ...

As the march of time continues on, it becomes harder and harder to play older video games on hardware. Part of this is ...

IOW, bus mastering devices on PCI can "see" up to 4 GB of host memory, while an ISA bus master device can only access the first 16 MB. <BR><BR>Just to make things more fun, the 64-bit extension to ...

The AT bus wouldn't be called the ISA bus until rivals Compaq would rename it to avoid infringing IBM's trademarks years later.

Created in 1987 for use in its PS/2 personal computers, the 16- or 32-bit bus was designed to overcome the limitations of the ISA bus, which suffered from a slow speed, limited interrupts and a ...