From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Re: Why VESA Local-Bus ????
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) says:

>Something to bear in mind is what the V in VLB stands for!
>
>V for Video - the origional intention of the bus was to speed up
>the bus so that large memory to memory transfers would be faster.
>This is espically useful in transfering data from main memory to
>video memory.


Well, not to be picky, but the V in VLB stands for VESA.
While the V in VESA stands for video, saying the V in VLB stands
for video is not entirely correct.
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