Re: [ILUG-BOM] slightly OT - pci/scsi

Sometime on Jul 28, S. Krishnan assembled some asciibets to say:

Your PC (if it is >= Pentium, as well as a few 486's) is built around a PCI bus. PCI stands for Peripheral Interconnect (don't know how that fits into the

Peripheral Component Interconnect. It is the interface between peripherals and on board components.

microprocessors became 32 bit. IBM also introduced a proprietary bus architecture called Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) which died a quick and unlamented

There was also VESA for video adapters - Video Enhanced Standard Architecture. Today. when we say ISA, we really mean EISA, and in some cases EISA with a VESA bus. The P7 architecture has AGP instead.