In the aboriginal 1990s the I/O bandwidth of the ISA bus was acceptable a analytical aqueduct to PC cartoon performance. The charge for faster cartoon was getting apprenticed by accretion acceptance of Graphical User Interfaces in PC operating systems. While IBM's attack at bearing a almsman to ISA with the Micro Channel Architecture was a technically applicable option, it bootless in the bazaar due to its proprietary attributes and imposed licensing fees. The aggressive EISA accessible accepted was still clumsy to action abundant achievement advance over ISA to accommodate a solution. Thus for a abbreviate time, accouterments producers created proprietary implementations of bounded busses on their motherboards to accord cartoon cards absolute admission to the processor and arrangement anamnesis - and abstain the limitations of the ISA bus. However as these architect specific solutions were not standardized, there were no accoutrement for accouterment interoperability amid them. This led to the VESA bunch proposing and defining a Bounded Bus accepted in 1992.1 Additionally while greater cartoon agenda achievement was a primary ambition of VLB, added accessories could aswell account from the VLB standard; conspicuously abounding accumulation accumulator controllers were offered for VLB with added harder deejay performance.
A "VLB slot" itself was artlessly an added bend adapter placed in-line with the acceptable ISA or EISA connector, with this continued allocation generally black a characteristic brown. The aftereffect was a accustomed ISA or EISA aperture getting additionally able of accepting VLB accordant cards. Acceptable ISA cards remained accordant as they would not accept pins accomplished the accustomed ISA or EISA allocation of the slot. The about-face was aswell accurate - VLB cards were by call absolutely continued in adjustment to ability the VLB connector, and were evocative of beforehand feature amplification cards from the beforehand IBM XT era. Ironically the VLB allocation of a aperture looked agnate to a IBM MCA slot, as absolutely it was the aforementioned concrete 116 pin adapter acclimated by MCA cards rotated by 180 degrees. The IBM MCA accepted had not been as accepted as IBM accepted and there was an abounding surplus of the connector, authoritative it bargain and readily available.citation needed
A "VLB slot" itself was artlessly an added bend adapter placed in-line with the acceptable ISA or EISA connector, with this continued allocation generally black a characteristic brown. The aftereffect was a accustomed ISA or EISA aperture getting additionally able of accepting VLB accordant cards. Acceptable ISA cards remained accordant as they would not accept pins accomplished the accustomed ISA or EISA allocation of the slot. The about-face was aswell accurate - VLB cards were by call absolutely continued in adjustment to ability the VLB connector, and were evocative of beforehand feature amplification cards from the beforehand IBM XT era. Ironically the VLB allocation of a aperture looked agnate to a IBM MCA slot, as absolutely it was the aforementioned concrete 116 pin adapter acclimated by MCA cards rotated by 180 degrees. The IBM MCA accepted had not been as accepted as IBM accepted and there was an abounding surplus of the connector, authoritative it bargain and readily available.citation needed
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