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32 bit PCI was only capable of 133 MB/s, but at the time, high speed SCSI peripherals were popular, and 64 bit SCSI cards were capable of 160 MB/s. If I recall
by Andys 5y ago
32 bit PCI was only capable of 133 MB/s, but at the time, high speed SCSI peripherals were popular, and 64 bit SCSI cards were capable of 160 MB/s.
If I recall correctly, the PCI bus was shared and not point to point like PCIe, so if you had multiple cards it made sense to buy high end 64 bit cards for that reason.
- trilinearnz 5y agoAh that makes sense. A quick Google establishes that USB 2.0 only came along in 2000 (G4 Powermac first introduced '99), hence why you'd still rely on traditional expansion means for peripherals. I guess that also helps explains why PCMCIA eventually bit the dust on the notebook scene.