Intel, AMD Call Truce On 'bus War'
News For example the current standard, PCI, competed with VL-Bus in the early 1990s, while IBM's MicroChannel Architecture (MCA) for servers battled with Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) in the 1980s. Given the relationship between Intel and AMD and...
[August 31, 2001, 17:17]
Buses, Bottlenecks And Speed
News Some devices are phased out slowly, like ESDI hard drives; others come and go in a flash, much like the VL Bus. A new device can increase its data transfer speed only so much before it becomes bottlenecked by the bus interface.
[September 24, 2002, 8:21]
Creative Pulls Out Of Bloody CD-ROM Drive Battle
News Additionally, inventoried product will strike out a further $20m for Creative, relating to eight-speed CD-ROM drives and VL-Bus 3-D cards. The CD-ROM drive battlefield has claimed a big casualty with the news that Singapore giant Creative Labs.is...
[July 11, 1996, 16:28]
Dell Fined $800,000 (£475,000) For '95 Sales Of Vaporware
News The settlement prevented Dell from taking legal action against companies that used a computer technology called the VL-bus, to which Dell claimed it had patents. The FTC hit Dell with an $800,000 (£475,000) fine to settle charges from 1995, saying...
[April 3, 1998, 11:23]
Creative Tries 3D Again
News 3D Blaster PCI boasts high-quality texturing and support for resolutions of 800 x 600 at 16-bit colour, running at real-time frame rates. It will cost around £199 including VAT and ship from October.
[September 24, 1996, 10:56]
