First post, by noshutdown
the topic starts with et4000: i have two of them, one made in 9002, which is among the earliest of them, and the other is made in 9534, which i think is pretty late as most et4000s are made prior to 1992, 1993 and later are less common.
but then i saw the picture of an et4000 made in 9701! whose layout is similar to my 9534 one anyway, just that all components have been replaced with smt variants. this really surprised me as isa cards are already fading out at that time, and the performance of et4000 is no longer competetive due to lacking acceleration. i know some low end cards were still in existence by then, even the very fast cirrus5434 is quite compact to save on costs, but et4000 is not expected to be a low cost solution like the tridents.
this doesn't mean that i consider that et4000 to be the latest isa video card, but reminds me of some trident8900dr cards made in year 2000, even equipped with 2 pieces of 16*256 -25ns 100mhz single clock edo ram chips... the 8900dr is supposed to be 8900d with integrated bios, not sure if there are other differences.
as for the latest pci card... they carried on till at least the 2010s but were all low end crap, i think the ati radeon9100(8500le) is the last pci video card of decent position.
