Il giorno 16-11-2011 18:22, Alex Barnes ha scritto:

> Why are the PCI ports on the PowerMac G4s so long? On PCs they are
> about 3 1/2" long but on a PowerMac G4 they are about 5"

I'm no hardware expert, but I think the short ones are 32-bit, and longer
ones are 64-bit.

Actually there are at least 4 different kind of PCI slots, and 6 kind of PCI
card "plugs" (combinations of 32- and 64-bit, 3.3 and 5V)
If you look into "PCI" on Wikipedia, you'll easily find out.

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