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    NuBus (/ˈn(j)uˌbʌs/) is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally developed at MIT and standardized in 1987 as a part of the NuMachine workstation project...
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  • Plug and play (section NuBus)
    systems for software configuration of devices included the MSX standard, NuBus, Amiga Autoconfig, and IBM Microchannel. Initially all expansion cards for...
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    interrupt priorities, and interrupt numbers. "Second generation" bus systems like NuBus addressed some of these problems. They typically separated the computer...
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    of Power Macintoshes had shipped with NuBus, but by the end of 1993, it was becoming clear that Intel's PCI bus was going to be the widely adopted future...
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  • Instruments dropped the NuMachine development in 1985 in favor of the TI Explorer. Its main legacy was a bus architecture called NuBus that was later adopted...
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    functionality of a local bus in PCs. This would result in much higher speeds than having to go through a bus layer, such as NuBus, which typically ran at...
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    standard, upgradable to 2 MB via 4 VRAM slots Expansion Slots: 5 - NuBus, 1 - PDS Hard Drive Bus: SCSI Backup Battery: 3.6 V Lithium Max Watts: 303 W Ports:...
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  • early generations of PCI-based "beige" Power Macs (and sometimes the first NuBus-equipped models), but not the older Motorola 68000-based Macs; however,...
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  • continued to be the only option for Macintosh NuBus computers until June 2000, when PPC/Linux for NuBus Power Macs was released. MacTech magazine observed...
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    due to a smaller internal fan. The relative compactness results in three NuBus slots being available, compared with six on the IIx. The new case, Apple's...
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    modulation, and reverb. In 1996, following Apple's decision to drop NuBus in favor of PCI bus, Digidesign added PCI support with Pro Tools 3.21. The PCI version...
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    third-party solutions such as Sonnet Technologies Crescendo G3 NuBus (up to 500 MHz) and G4 NuBus (up to 360 MHz; discontinued) and Newer Technology's MaxPower...
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    Futurebus, VMEbus, Multibus II, NuBus, Acorn Archimedes expansion bus, VXI Bus, eurocard TRAM motherboards, and Europe Card Bus, all of which typically use...
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  • QuickRing (category Computer buses)
    current NuBus systems in terms of speed. They envisioned various video cards using a second connector located near the top of the card, opposite the NuBus connector...
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  • partial list of expansion bus interfaces, or expansion card slots, for installation of expansion cards. Bus interfaces ISA EISA NuBus PCI PCI Express ×16 slot...
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    for the IIsi to convert the Processor Direct slot to a standard internal NuBus card slot, compatible with other machines in the Macintosh II family. The...
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    second internal 800 kilobyte 3.5-inch floppy disk drive. Expansion: Six NuBus slots were available for expansion (at least one of which had to be used...
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    earlier that year, and shares the same compact case design. With three NuBus expansion slots and a Processor Direct Slot, the IIci also improved upon...
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    There are no NuBus slots; an optional expansion card was offered that plugs into the Processor Direct Slot and allows a single 7-inch NuBus card to be installed...
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    Expansion card (redirect from Expansion bus)
    used PCI bus connectors. Both Zorro II and NuBus were plug and play, requiring no hardware configuration by the user. Other computer buses were used...
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  • USB), starting with the original 128K Macintosh and ending with the last NuBus-based Power Macintosh models (including the first-generation 6100, 7100...
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    three Macintosh models to use this case allowing dual floppy drives and 6 NuBus slots; the last model was the Macintosh IIfx. Apple's nomenclature of the...
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    Low-voltage differential signaling (category Computer buses)
    circuit using LVDS. QuickRing was a high speed auxiliary bus for video data to bypass the NuBus in Macintosh computers. The multimedia and supercomputer...
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  • artificial intelligence software. Notable is also the early use of the NuBus as the system bus for the Explorer computer family. The Explorer was used to develop...
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    black-and-white monitor and a single Processor Direct Slot (rather than the NuBus slots of the IIx, with which the SE/30 shares a common architecture) which...
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    bus interfaces Amiga Zorro II NuBus Switched fabric List of device bandwidths CompactPCI PC card Universal Serial Bus (USB) Legacy port Backplane Kyle...
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  • practically any product, reducing the otherwise heavy workload of developing a NuBus-based expansion card. However, the MCP cards were expensive, limiting the...
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    This Lisp chip also was used for the MicroExplorer – a NuBus board for the Apple Macintosh II (NuBus was initially developed at MIT for use in Lisp machines)...
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    Computer adopted PCI for professional Power Macintosh computers (replacing NuBus) in mid-1995, and the consumer Performa product line (replacing LC Processor...
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    used in the "Kanga" PowerBook G3, which was derived from the 3400. Early NuBus PowerBooks such as the PowerBook 1400 used the less-sophisticated 65525A...
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