Expansion buses (sometimes called peripheral buses) have connectors that allow you to add a computer's expansion cards (peripherals). Different types of standard internal buses are characterized by ...

Upgrading and repairing vintage laptops is often a challenge — even if their basic hardware is compatible with ordinary PCs, they often use nonstandard components and connectors due to space ...

A technique using distributed DMA offers upward compatibility for ISA-legacy devices in PCI-bus systems and provides a vast improvement in performance. The ISA bus, introduced in 1981, has had several ...