Hardware Bible

After all, when you need more room, nothing seems more natural than building an addition. If you have more ambition than second thoughts, the most humble bungalow can become a manse of overwhelming grandeur with a mortgage to match. Making the same ...

Expansion buses are much more than the simple electrical connections you make when plugging in a lamp. Through the bus circuits, your computer transfers not only electricity but also information. Like all the data your computer must deal with, that i...

No one might have predicted that would become the most popular expansion bus in the world when Intel Corporation introduced it in July 1992. PCI was long awaited as a high-speed expansion bus specification, but the initial announcement proved to be ...

Its success seemed all but assured by its mixed parentage that pulled together factions once as friendly as the Montagues and Capulets. But as this is written, some industry insiders believe that the introduction of a new PCI variation, PCI Express, ...

The fastest way to send signals inside a computer is via , but is not an expansion bus. It isn't a bus at all. Strictly defined, it is a point-to-point communications system. The specification makes no provision for removable expansion boards. Howe...

Because it is operating system and device independent, you can plug the same PC Card peripheral into a computer, Mac, Newton, or whatever the next generation holds in store. The PC Card expansion system can cohabitate in a computer with a desktop bus...