A technique using distributed DMA offers upward compatibility for ISA-legacy devices in PCI-bus systems and provides a vast improvement in performance. The ISA bus, introduced in 1981, has had several ...

Today's embedded applications target the PC architecture that users have accepted beyond anyone's wildest dreams for both business and personal use. This is a wide-open target, supported by a vast ...

After [Andy]’s discovery of an old ISA soundcard at his parents’ place that once was inside the family PC, the onset of a wave of nostalgia for those old-school sounds drove him off the deep end. This ...

The early days of home computing were quite a jungle of different standards and convoluted solutions to make one piece of hardware work on as many different platforms as possible. IBM’s PC was an ...