Talk:Extended Industry Standard Architecture

V/LB
''Although somewhat inferior to the MCA it became much more popular due to the proprietary nature of MCA. But by the time there was a strong market need for a bus of this speed, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) became the market standard and EISA vanished into obscurity.''


 * But V/LB was massively popular for several years before PCI took off. Am I missing something? Crusadeonilliteracy 14:26, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Yeah, the chronology is off. But it was a factor that by the time the market wanted a bus with the speed and capabilities of EISA, other solutions (like VESA and PCI) won instead. Feel free to revise :-) - David Gerard 15:02, Feb 11, 2004 (UTC)


 * I've done quite a bit of fixing. It's also better organised - summary, technical then its demise. Further thoughts? - David Gerard 11:02, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)

I remember hearing that ISA didn't actually have a standard name until EISA came along (therefore if EISA was the "extended" version, the original must have been "industry standard architecture".) Anyone know if that is true? -- DrBob 19:24, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That's true. The 8/16 bit bus was commonly known as the "PC/AT bus" at the time, because the IBM PC/AT (the first popular 286) introduced the bus. At the time of the PC/AT, IBM still set the standard -- which is one reason they thought they could get away with such strict controls on MCA. As you said, the "Gang of Nine" needed to express that they were extending something...so the term ISA was adopted (probably in minor use previously, but not very common) as a springboard for the Extended ISA. EJSawyer 22:57, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

ISA Patents
IIRC, the ISA bus was patented by IBM, but they were under an anti-trust decree which required them to have open access to their hardware interfaces. This decree was lifted shortly before the introduction of MCA. Many PC vendors paid IBM small amounts of royalties throughout the 80s and 90s for ISA and other basic PC technologies. (The usual quoted figure was $5/machine.) 71.134.252.36 (talk) 03:50, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
I think that Gang of Nine should be merged here. The only purpose of the Gang of Nine article is to list the companies, which can easily be done here. Gang of Nine repeats the briefest summary of what EISA is, which would not be necessary here. All that's needed is to list the nine members parenthetically along with the first mention of the Gang, and the other article becomes 100% redundant. To me, this seems like a no brainer, and I was tempted to just do it under Be Bold, but I gues there might be some reason to keep the other article that I haven't considered. Joe Avins (talk) 17:55, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Gang of Nine
I've moved this unreferenced statement from the article to talk...


 * (The name "Gang of Nine" is a reference to the Gang of Four Chinese communist officials who fell into disfavor after the death of Mao Zedong ).

...and added Gang of Nine back to category:Numeric epithets, where it was before its merge into this article. A glance at the category shows that use of the numeric epithet Gang of (number) has become quite common, for example: Gang of 14. Few of these articles include an explanation of how the epithet originated. Wiktionary's Gang of Four definition says:
 * 1) A leftist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
 * 2) (pejorative) Any group people (usually four) who are working together towards a common goal and whose behaviour is under suspicion.

I have not found any articles on EISA that explain how the term Gang of Nine originated. So I think it best Wikipedia leaves it unsaid, just as most if not all articles and books discussing EISA have. – Wbm1058 (talk) 11:42, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

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Citation is missing information
''On the other hand, when it became clear to IBM that Micro Channel was dying, IBM actually licensed EISA for use in a few server systems. As a final jab at their competitor, Compaq (leader of the EISA consortium) didn't cash the first check sent by IBM for the EISA license. Instead, the check was framed and put on display in the company museum at Compaq's main campus in Houston, Texas.''

The article "Compaq Vying To Become the IBM of the '90s", cited right after the quote, does not contain the info. Mizoru (talk) 23:31, 4 January 2024 (UTC)