Local bus schedule

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat Jun 26 21:52:37 1999

<>ISA
<>S-100
<>PCI
<>VLB
<>EISA
<>NuBus
<>Unibus (don't know anything about this besides that it's by DEC)

It is the bus used for PDP11 and early VAX based (7xx and some 8xxx)
systems. The related bus is Qbus used on smaller PDP-11s and MicroVAXen.

<>PDS
<>Apple ][ bus
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<Duh! I left out MCA. Boy, am I in for it now...

Multibus, mostly intel based/biased sytems.

STDbus, Zilog z80 based systems

SCSI and the earler version called SASI

GPIB/HPIB general purpose instrumentation bus

IEEE485 lowspeed networking for instrumentation and controllers.

Omnibus DEC PDP-8E/F/M/A series computers.

Eithernet, serial bus.

Token ring, serial bus

MassBus, used on large dec system for interconnecting disk farms.

IDE, a 16bit wide bus for storage devices on PCs

Hexbus, used on some TI consumer Machines.

USB and firewire, serialbuses for interconnect (PC and?).

And Parallel port... who says a bus has to talk both ways!

Allison
Received on Sat Jun 26 1999 - 21:52:37 BST