Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 144. Chapters: Scroll lock, X86, Conventional PCI, Motherboard, IBM PC compatible, Industry Standard Architecture, Extended Industry Standard Architecture, Accelerated Graphics Port, Disk partitioning, VESA Local Bus, Tandy 1000, Poqet PC, Ad Lib, Inc., Wintel, CP/M-86, Overclocking, Sound Blaster, ATX, Control-Alt-Delete, Eagle Computer, Sound Blaster X-Fi, INT 13H, Token ring, VGA compatible text mode, Intel 8253, Sound Blaster Live!, Ensoniq AudioPCI, Sound Blaster Audigy, Compaq Presario, Hardcard, PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes, Intel 8259, Mini-ITX, Intel 8255, Compaq Presario 1200, Commodity computing, Apple Intel architecture, Leading Edge Model D, BTX, Pico-ITX, Sound Blaster 16, A20 line, Fan control, Tandy 2000, Legacy Plug and Play, PC-1512, Sound Blaster AWE32, PC System Design Guide, Southbridge, Northbridge, Sound Blaster AWE64, Atari Portfolio, Coherent, Creative Wave Blaster, Compaq Portable, PPC 512, Columbia Data Products, Intel APIC Architecture, Compaq Presario 5000, Compaq Evo, NEAT chipset, Mindset computer, Partition type, VIA Envy, Compaq Presario 3000, Multimedia PC, PC Open Architecture Developers' Group, DeskMate, Pico-ITXe, Compaq Presario V6000, Tulip System-1, Mobile-ITX, SVI-838, 3DO Blaster, Commodore PC compatible systems, WTX, Compaq Deskpro, LPX, Toshiba T1000, Nano-ITX, VAXmate, X2APIC, NLX, Cylinder 1024, Programmable interval timer, MacCharlie, Compaq Portable series, Toshiba T3100, Compaq Presario 2700, Dell Dimension 2400, Compaq Presario 5460, Dell dimension 2100, Compaq Presario M2000, Dual format, Compaq Presario 1700, Dell Dimension 2300, Compaq Presario R3000, Compaq Presario 1260, Compaq Presario C502TU, Epson Equity, ES PEVM, Amstrad PC2286, Compaq Portable II, Zenith 248 SX. Excerpt: Conventional PCI (PCI is an initialism formed from Peripheral Component Interconnect, part of the PCI Local Bus standard and often shortened to PCI) is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer. These devices can take either the form of an integrated circuit fitted onto the motherboard itself, called a planar device in the PCI specification, or an expansion card that fits into a slot. The PCI Local Bus is common in modern PCs, where it has displaced ISA and VESA Local Bus as the standard expansion bus, and it also appears in many other computer types. Despite the availability of faster interfaces such as PCI-X and PCI Express, conventional PCI remains a very common interface. The PCI specification covers the physical size of the bus (including the size and spacing of the circuit board edge electrical contacts), electrical characteristics, bus timing, and protocols. The specification can be purchased from the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG). Typical PCI cards used in PCs include: network cards, sound cards, modems, extra ports such as USB or serial, TV tuner cards and disk controllers. Historically video cards were typically PCI devices, but growing bandwidth requirements soon outgrew the capabilities of PCI. PCI video cards remain available for supporting extra monitors and upgrading PCs that do not have any AGP or PCI Express slots. Many devices traditionally provided on expansion cards are now commonly integrated onto the motherboard itself, meaning that modern PCs often have no cards fitted. However, PCI is still used for certain specialized cards, although many tasks traditionally performed by expansion cards may now be performed equally well by USB dev...
