First post, by ericmackrodt
Hello everyone,
I'm a bit curious about something and I haven't found much information on the internet, so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has any idea.
I have a couple of computers that use SBCs on ISA blackplanes, mostly 386 and 486 computers.
I noticed that there are some backplanes with PCI slots and they usually have a chipset that I imagine is some sort of pci controller, like this one:
https://www.digikey.com.au/en/products/detail … ASABEgKwB_D_BwE
What I'm wondering is, would those PCI slots work the same and have the same speed as PCI slots in normal motherboards?
I imagine that if you are using a VBL backplane with a 486, it would probably be similar but if you are using just a normal ISA backplane it would be a lot slower (assuming it would work at all).
But I have no way to test it as I don't have one of those backplanes or a VBL SBC.
Does anyone have any experience with them that would help with my curiosity?
Thanks in advance!