[geeks] Carly's Gone!!!

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Fri Feb 11 15:03:39 CST 2005


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> I thought PCI-X was basically just an improved mezzanine bus, not a
> motherboard I/O subsystem.

It is a bus, just like PCI-X.  Where it's used is up to the vendor.

> Right now it seems like it isn't used for anything except graphics
> cards.

And storage cards and network cards.

> Are any non-x86 vendors using it?

IBM and Apple.

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