| Industry standard architecture Motherboard | | | | it allowes to communicate directly with other |
| Processor & RAM I would like to know what | | | | devices without going through the processor. The |
| is Isa , industry standard architecture , and what | | | | Industry Standard Architecture, commonly |
| is the latest Version of Isa , when isa was Used | | | | abbreviated as ISA 'is a standard computer bus |
| and how does Isa works , please help me thanks | | | | used internally for connecting expansion cards to |
| in advance for your helpThe Industry Standard | | | | the motherboard of a computer. It has been over |
| Architecture, commonly abbreviated as ISA is a | | | | a decade bus standard compatible PC. Since 1998 |
| standard computer bus used internally for | | | | it has almost disappeared from the new |
| connecting expansion cards to the motherboard | | | | motherboards for the benefit of the Peripheral |
| of a computer. It is a 16 bits width bus with a | | | | Component Interconnect (PCI) The original ISA |
| clock speed of 8 MHz. It allows bus mastering on | | | | bus (Industry Standard Architecture), appeared in |
| the first 16 megabytes. The ISA bus was | | | | 1981 with the PC XT, was a bus width of 8 bits |
| developed by IBM as part of the creation of the | | | | clocked at a frequency of 4.77 MHz. |
| PC in 1981. Originally a width of 8 bits, it goes to | | | | In 1984, with the advent of the PC AT (Intel |
| 16 bits in 1984, first under the name AT bus. | | | | 286), the bus width is increased to 16 bits and the |
| The Extended Industry Standard Architecture, or | | | | frequency successively from 6 to 8 MHz, and |
| EISA bus is a standard for improving ISA bus | | | | finally 8.33 MHz , providing a theoretical maximum |
| offered by Compaq at the head of a consortium | | | | throughput of 16 Mb/s (in practice only 8 MB / s |
| of manufacturers, in response to the IBM Isa bus | | | | in that cycle two was used for addressing). |
| The ISA bus allow bus mastering , it means that | | | | |