Characteristics of EISA – Extended Industry Standard Architecture

Learn characteristics of EISA – Extended Industry Standard Architecture.

1. It was designed to use a 32 bit data path and provided 32 address lines access to 4GB memory.
2. It offered a disk based setup for the cards.
3. It still ran at 8MHz.
4. The EISA expansion slots are twice as deep as an ISA slot.
5. It was relatively expensive and were normally found on high end workstations and network servers.