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Re: Cardbus vs. PCMCIA
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:03:29 -0400 (EDT), Tim Tyhurst wrote:
>> The new 765D has CardBus capability. Yes, it's faster. See, for example,
>> http://www.tdksystems.com/PRODINFO/PRODDTL/cardbus.htm. It's basically
>> PCI for a portable computer.
>
>The 760E also has CardBus support (at least according to the manual and
>the ThinkPad features program) which can be used under Win95 OSR2.x.
>I haven't tried this myself, though, as I don't have any CardBus cards.
>As Steve says, it's kind of like a PCI-based version of PCMCIA, supporting
>much higher transfer rates, etc. It also supports low-voltage cards and
>probably a bunch of other things, too.
>
>tim
>
Sounds like a cool innovation to me. I just haven't heard much about it
probably because I'm still partially in the world of Microchannel and PC/XTs
(actually, I really haven't seen any articles on what Cardbus is, though). Thanks
by the way.
Paul
Regards,
Paul Khoury
pkhoury@earthlink.net