Asante Technologies 10NIC-PCITM manual PCI Local Bus

PCI Local Bus

PCI Local Bus

The PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus is an industry stan- dard high-performance bus designed for high I/O throughput.The 32-bit PCI bus runs at a maximum of 33MHz, while handling a maximum data transfer rate of 132 MBytes/second.

One of the advantages of the PCI bus is that it is processor-independent.The Asanté 10NIC-PCI adapter is capable of working with both PCI-based PC and Power Macintosh computers. PCI devices are also self-configuring, making them very easy to install and use.

The Asanté 10NIC-PCI adapter uses 32-bit bus mastering architecture allow- ing maximum throughput with low CPU utilization.

▲Important! The PCI bus slot on your computer must support bus-mastering operations. All Macintosh comput- ers support bus-mastering.

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