Extended Industry-Standard Architecture
<architecture, standard> (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)
Nearby terms:
Extended Data Out Random Access Memory « Extended Fortran
Language « eXtended Graphics Array « Extended
Industry-Standard Architecture » extended memory »
extended memory manager » Extended Memory Specification
