From: especkma@reed.edu (Erik. A Speckman)
Subject: Re: PDS vs. Nubus (was Re: LC III NuBus Capable?)
Article-I.D.: reed.1993Apr19.184256.8664
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In article <1qt3vd$802@morrow.stanford.edu> HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky) writes:

>Second Wave makes NuBus card cages that work on the PDS slots of at
>least three Macs: the SE/30, IIsi and Centris 610. They have not, to
>my knowledge, announced such a device for the LCII, but they could
>make one, technologically.
>
>The PDS card that goes to the cage simply needs the NuBus controller
>circuitry present on NuBus Macs.
>
>Why, though, does anyone care about this? dgr has a three-PDS
>adapter for the LC/LCII. They will soon have one for the LCIII. PDS
>is better than NuBus for most people in most applications. Granted,
>there are more NuBus cards. But, most applications that require a
>NuBus card (like full-motion video capture) shouldn't be done on an
>LC/LCII/LCIII anyway.
>
>Mark


NuBus is a much more robust system for system for installing multiple
cards without configuration problems.  I know that when I was checking
into expasion options for an SI there were a number of PDS video cards
that would not work with certian Dual slot cache adapters.

_Erik Speckman
