Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture. An internal connection for devices such as network cards, SCSI cards, video cards, sound cards, etc. EISA has a maximum data transfer rate of 33 MB/s. See also ISA.

Primarily a desktop specification for high-performance computers. Competes with IBM's Micro Channel architecture (MCA). EISA computers can use existing PC, XT, and AT add-in cards; MCA computers can't. See also Micro Channel architecture

xtended ndustry tandard rchitecture. Faster than a regular ISA expansion slot, but still compatible with ISA cards.

a bus architecture for desktop computers that provides a 32-bit data passage while maintaining compatibility with the ISA or AT architecture.

The ndustry tandard rchitecture (ISA) for IBM-compatible microcomputers defines the use of the data bus and the 8-bit and 16-bit expansion slots on the PC-XT and PC-AT models. EISA is the xtended ISA. With an EISA bus, 8- or 16-bit add-in boards based on the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) can be fitted to the new machines.

16-bit ISA was extended to 32-bits and they called it EISA. Pretty creative. But, really, it's generally used only in server machines, and it never caught on because of VL-Bus and PCI. It beats out VL-Bus and PCI because you can have a ton of EISA slots in one machine without any complex wiring. I saw a server box that had 14 of them. VL-Bus and PCI generally support fewer than four slots, and that's a problem if you want to install seven network adapters and five RAID cards. EISA makes it possible.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A 32-bit bus standard introduced in 1988 by a consortium of nine computer-industry companies. EISA maintains compatibility with the earlier Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) but provides for additional features.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. It is the 32-bit bus architecture that evolved from the original ISA bus. Developed by a consortium of 9 computer vendors in the '80s.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture - A 32-bit PC expansion bus designed as a superset of the ISA bus. Designed to expand the speed and data width of the legacy expansion bus while still supporting older ISA cards.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. 32-bit adaptation of the widely used ISA bus used in older Intel-based PCs.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A 32-bit adaptation of the 8/16-bit buses originally developed by IBM and now standard in almost all PCs that use Intel's 8086 and 80X86 chips. The EISA bus is a joint development from Compaq and other PC manufacturers. Contrast with Microchannel and ISA.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. An enhancement of the ISA architecture that provides a 32-bit data path while maintaining backwards compatibility with ISA.  EISA devices and motherboards required a configuration utility to be run any time a change was made to the devices or their locations.

extended industry standard architecture, a 32 bit version of an ISA slot, usually brown, also the bus associated with such slots.

Extended Industry System Architecture

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus is an industry-standard high-performance bus that is a superset of the 8- and 16-bit Industry Standard Architecture (ISA).

The rival expansion slot to MCA providing 32bit data transfer at 20Mhz.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A 32-bit PC bus architecture, compatible with ISA and AT standards.

Extended ISA (32 bit bus)

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. Open standard for I/O buses for industry-standard computers, developed by nine PC vendors, excluding IBM. Comprises an extension of the AT-compatible 16-bit bus to 32 bits, and was designed to stop IBM’s MCA from becoming the industry-standard 32-bit interface (although IBM’s failure to show any real benefits from MCA seems to have done that fairly successfully anyway). EISA has 32-bit address and data bus extensions for memory beyond 16MB, and 32-bit direct memory access. See also Busmaster, MCDA, ISA.

(Extended Industry Standard Architecture; pr. "ee-icer") An upgraded version of ISA, now obsolete; usually used with reference to expansion cards.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. This is an extension of the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus developed by IBM for the AT. The design was patterned largely after IBM= s Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) but unlike MCA, EISA allows for backward compatibility with older plug-in adapters. See ISA, PCI, VLB and BUS for further details.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A step up from ISA, a standard for expansion cards that can transfer 32 bits of data at a time.

Extended Industry standard architecture. 16-bit and 32-bit slot based interface.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) is a PC bus standard that extends the 16-bit ISA bus to 32 bits.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. An old 8/12MHz interface standard that was once popular inside computers that allow expansion cards to be fitted that have an edge connector that fits inside the motherboards EISA slots. EISA was developed as a 32bit expansion to ISA. PCI is the successor to ISA/EISA and Micro channel. See also Interface, Motherboard, ISA, AGP, PCI, VLB and Micro channel.

Acronym for Extended Industry-Standard Architecture, a 32-bit expansion-bus design. The expansion-card connectors in an EISA system are also compatible with 8- or 16-bit ISA expansion cards. To avoid a configuration conflict when installing an EISA expansion card, you must use the EISA Configuration Utility. This utility allows you to specify which expansion slot contains the card and obtains information about the card's required system resources from a corresponding EISA configuration file.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. The standard for an IBM compatible computer data bus that can transfer 32 bits of data at a time. Extended ISA was developed in response to IBM's proprietary Micro Channel Architecture bus (MCA). Unlike MCA, it was backwards compatible with the older 16 bit ISA bus.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. This is an extension of the standard ISA bus interface, which specifies on personal computers ( PC compatible) the physical and logical characteristics of the interface. EISA has a 32 bit-wide interface. An EISA slot can also be used for an 8 or 16 bit ISA PCB.

(Extended ISA) - A bus architecture that extended the 16-bit ISA bus to 32 bits. EISA operates at 8MHz and has a peak data transfer rate of 33MB per second. EISA was introduced in 1988 as an open alternative to IBM's proprietary Micro Channel bus.

Is the Extended Industry Standard Architecture.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture bus standard for IBM PC and compatible computers, that extends the AT bus to be 32 bits.

Extended Industry-Standard Architecture. 32-bit bus interface used in PCs, PC-based servers, and some UNIX workstations and servers. See also ISA.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. This 32-bit bus standard was created primarily to compete with IBM's MCA bus. It runs at speeds of up to 8.33 MHz. EISA is a dying standard.

EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) is a bus architecture designed for PCs using an Intel 80386, 80486, or Pentium microprocessor. EISA buses are 32 bits wide and support multiprocessing.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. One of the standard busses used for PC's.

See Extended Industry Standard Architecture

Extended Industry Standard Architecture. An enhancement to the bus architecture used on the IBM PC/AT, which allows the use of 32-bit devices in the same type of expansion slot used by an ISA adapter card. EISA slots and adapters were formerly common in server computers, but have been mostly replaced with PCI slots.

Acronym for Extended Industry Standard Architecture, pronounced "ee-sah." A PC bus standard that extends the traditional AT-bus to 32 bits and allows more than one processor to share the bus. EISA ... more

A PC bus system that serves as an alternative to IBM's. Micro Channel Architecture (MCA). The EISA architecture, backed by an industry consortium headed by Compaq, is compatible with the IBMAT bus; ... more