All objects with VLB interface

The VESA Local Bus (VLB or VL-Bus) was often used in 1992, 1993 and 1994 for graphics and disk I/O cards in 486 systems. PC's were getting faster every year but the old ISA bus didn't change and became a bottleneck. Especially for graphics the ISA-bus was no longer the ideal choice.

A VESA Local Bus slot can quickly be identified by the brown "reversed PCI-slot" that sits next to a 16-bit ISA bus. This way the ISA-bus handles interrupts whereas the VLB is able to do high-speed DMA and memory-mapped I/O.

On Pentium-based systems VESA Local Bus is rarely found because VESA Local Bus was primarily designed for the 486 memory bus. Pentium-based systems used the newer, faster and more versatile PCI-bus instead.

Vendor
Name
RAM
Int.
ES?
Date
CoreClck
RAMClck
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9313
?
?
Diamond
2MB
VLB
No
9327
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9332
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9336
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9341
?
?
Spea
1MB
VLB
No
0000
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9346
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9403
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9403
?
?
ELSA
1MB
VLB
No
9404
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9408
?
?
Diamond
1MB
VLB
No
9409
?
?
Jaton
1MB
VLB
No
9413
?
?
S3
1MB
VLB
No
9424
?
?
ARK
1MB
VLB
No
9428
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9430
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9444
?
?
Cardex
1MB
VLB
No
9447
?
?
miro
1MB
VLB
No
9450
?
?
Cirrus Logic
1MB
VLB
No
9517
?
?