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Re:AMD Ryzen AMA by pmarin on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:18PM (#14115314)
For a long time the most common bus was the ISA at only 8 MHz even for many 486 systems until VESA become popular.
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Re:AMD Ryzen AMA by dlevine on Friday April 14, 2017 @01:31PM (#14115763)
VESA was just a hack on top of ISA that allowed one or two cards to run faster.

PCI was the first real improvement over ISA.

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