In answer to jbWHO :
The slot which existed a bit before PCI and which was seen as an extension to ISA was the VLB (VESA LOCAL BUS).
It was more popular in the 486 motherboards than on the Pentium ones.
VLB had a rather short life as the PCI chipset improved and VLB lost its appeal.
In chronological order (not counting the computers before PC-compatible) :
So let's begin in August 1991 whcn I got my 486DX/33 PC :
- Paradise VGA 512K ISA ;)
- ET4000 1M ISA :) Very fast for DOS games
- Orchid Fahrenheit 1280+ 1M ISA :) Very fast at the time for Windows
- S3...
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