Apple 4400/200 PC Manuale Utente

 

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Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Technology - 9

 

Peripheral Component Interconnect 
(PCI) Technology

 

The Power Macintosh 4400 offers peripheral component 

interconnect (PCI) expansion. Because the PCI bus is an 

industry standard, most existing PCI 2.0-compliant cards 

(with the addition of a Macintosh OS-specific software 

driver) will work in these computers.

PCI offers significantly higher performance than the NuBus 

architecture used in previous Macintosh models. Running at 

33 MHz, the PCI bus is up to three times faster than NuBus, 

offering overall enhanced system performance, particularly 

in the areas of video and networking.

PCI expansion cards are mounted horizontally in an adapter 

card.