Barry Watzman wrote:
>
> One other question, what does EISA stand for? Back in the 1980's it
> stood for "Extended Industry Standard Architecture", an architecture of
> a new system bus designed by Compaq and Zenith and a few others to
> compete with the "Micro-channel" architecture from IBM. It never was
> commercially successful and it died more than 20 years ago. So why is
> this partition called an EISA partition?

Because it's tagged with the same partition table identifier 12h (18
decimal) that was used when the disk space were originally used to hold
the then necessary configuration program for those early jumperless EISA
systems, accessible using a defined key sequence during boot. The tag
name stuck for a lot longer than the technology of EISA and MCA.

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Adrian C