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VESA Local Bus

The VESA Local Bus is a local bus defined by the Video Electronics Standards Association, mostly used in personal computers based on the Intel 80486 CPU.

The VESA Local Bus was technically inferior to the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) architecture, and thus was not widely used.

See also:

Extended Industry Standard Architecture
Industry Standard Architecture
Micro Channel Architecture
Peripheral Component Interconnect
XT bus architecture

Article based based on VESA Local Bus (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Vesa+local+bus) at FOLDOC (http://www.foldoc.org), used with permission.'

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