Industry Standard Architecture
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An expansion bus design which EISA and Micro Channel were supposed to replace but still exists in some forms today; particularly in older machines. ISA extended the original bus architecture to 16 bits and allowed for bus mastering (the first 16MB of main memory was made available for direct access).
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