V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
EISA
Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
EISA
European Imaging and Sound Association (org., Europe)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Extended Industry-Standard Architecture
EISA
(EISA) /eesa/ A bus standard for
IBM compatibles that extends the ISA bus architecture to
32 bits and allows more than one CPU to share the bus. The
bus mastering support is also enhanced to provide access to
4 GB of memory. Unlike MCA, EISA can accept older XT bus
architecture and ISA boards.
EISA was announced in late 1988 by compatible vendors as a
counter to IBM's MCA in its PS/2 series. Although
somewhat inferior to the MCA it became much more popular due
to the proprietary nature of MCA.
[Main sponsors? Open standard?]
(1996-06-25)