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Industry Standard Architecture
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(architecture, standard)Industry Standard Architecture - (ISA) A bus standard for IBM compatibles that extends the XT bus architecture to 16 bits. It also allows for bus mastering although only the first 16 MB of main memory is available for direct access. In reference to the XT bus architecture it is sometimes referred to as "AT bus architecture".

Compare EISA, MCA.


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For maximum flexibility, System 4 offers 15 expansion slots -- of which 10 are full-length PCI slots, three are ISA slots and two are for SBCs -- and options for DVD/floppy, CD/floppy and internal drives.
The S2 offers three PCI and two ISA expansion slots, whilst the S3 has two PCI and one ISA slot.
We knew that the new motherboards would be eliminating the ISA slot.
 
 
 
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