VESA Local Bus - Legacy

Legacy

Despite these problems, the VESA Local Bus became very commonplace on later 486 motherboards, with a majority of later (post 1993) 486-based systems featuring a VESA Local Bus video card. VLB importantly offered an affordable high speed interface for consumer systems, as only by 1996 was PCI commonly available outside of the server market via the Pentium and Intel's Triton chipset. PCI also displaced the VESA Local Bus in the remaining 486 market, with some of the last 80486 motherboards featuring PCI slots instead of VLB slots. However most still had either PCI or VLB slots alongside the still-ubiquitous ISA slots, and so-called "VIP" (VESA/ISA/PCI) boards with all three slot types were also produced.