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The VESA Local Bus is a short-lived expansion bus introduced during the i486 generation of x86 IBM-compatible personal computers. Created by VESA, the VESA Local Bus worked alongside the then-dominant ISA bus to provide a standardized high-speed conduit intended primarily to accelerate video (graphics) operations. VLB provides a standardized fast path that add-in (video) card makers could tap for greatly accelerated memory-mapped I/O and DMA, while still using the familiar ISA bus to handle basic device duties such as interrupts and port-mapped I/O. Some high-end 386DX motherboards also had a VL-Bus slot.
Multi-I/O-Controller with 1×IDE/SCSI-2/FDD/parallel/2×RS232/Game
An ATI MACH64 SVGA VLB graphics card
Computer motherboard with 7 ISA slots of various feature levels. The top three are 16-bit ISA. The middle three are VLB; 16-bit ISA with the added slot (leftmost brown sections). The bottom (shorter) slot is 8-bit ISA. A card installed in this motherboard would have its mounting bracket on the right, which normally would be the "back" of the computer case.
"VIP" motherboard GA486IM from Gigabyte Technology
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s. The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8088-based IBM PC, including the IBM PC/XT as well as IBM PC compatibles.
One 8-bit and five 16-bit ISA slots on a motherboard
8-bit XT, 16-bit ISA, EISA (top to bottom)
8-bit XT: Adlib FM Sound card
16-bit ISA: Madge 4/16 Mbps Token Ring NIC