Chapter 2. System board features
Features provided by USB technology include:
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Ÿ | Support | for | concurrent | operation of | multiple | devices | |
Ÿ | Suitability | for | different device | bandwidths | |||
Ÿ | Support | for | up | to five meters length from | host to hub or from hub to hub | ||
Ÿ | Guaranteed | bandwidth | and low latencies appropriate for specific devices | ||||
Ÿ | Wide | range | of | packet | sizes |
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ŸLimited power to hubs
For information on the connector pin assignments for the USB interface, see “USB port page 33.
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The | low | pin | count | (LPC) | bus allows a | connection of the ISA and | ||
PC 300PL | Personal | Computer | uses the National Semiconductor PC87360 Super I/O chip. The PC87360 | |||||
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Ÿ | Floppy disk |
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Ÿ | Keyboard | and mouse | controller |
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Ÿ | IEEE | 1284 | parallel port |
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Ÿ | Two | UART | serial | ports |
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Ÿ | Wake | on | LAN | support |
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Ÿ | General | purpose | input/output (GPIO) | ports |
ŸPC98 compliance
ŸACPI compliance
Diskette write protection can be enabled or disabled by a programmable setting in t setting is accessible through the Configuration/Setup Utility program.
Video subsystem
The PC 300PL Personal Computer comes with one of the following graphics solutions:
Ÿ | NumberNine | S3 | Savage4 | Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 2X | adapter | with | 8 MB | 110 MHz |
| and a | SVGA connector |
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Ÿ | NumberNine | S3 | Savage4 | Extreme AGP 4X adapter, with 16 MB | 166 MHz | SDRAM | and | a convert |
| a | VGA | displays |
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The Savage4 graphics accelerator supports the following features:
Ÿ | engine | |
Ÿ | video accelerator |
Ÿ3D rendering
ŸMotion video architecture
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Ÿ | Flat | panel | desktop monitor support |
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Ÿ | Full | software | support |
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Ÿ | ACPI | and | PCI | power | management |
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Ÿ | PCI | 2.2 | bus | support, including | bus | mastering | ||
Ÿ | 300 | MHz RAMDAC with gamma correction |
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Ÿ | I2C | serial bus and | flash | ROM | support | |||
Ÿ | 2.5 V core with 3.3V/5V tolerant I/O | |||||||
Ÿ | Hardware | and | BIOS | support | for | VESA | timings and DDC monitor communications |
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