re pds vs nubus was re lc iii nubus capable in article apr fnalf fnal gov higgins fnalf fnal gov bill higgins beam jockey writes in article c kzls kkb dartvax dartmouth edu hades coos dartmouth edu brian v hughes writes mmiller garnet msen com marvin miller writes my friend recently purchased a lc iii and he wants to know if there is such a demon called nubus adapter for his pds slot the lc family of macs can only use pds cards they are not able to use nubus ah but why can some technically hip macslinger tell us what the difference is between pds and nubus is it impossible to make a gadget that plugs into pds and ends in a nubus card cage at least marvin s friend has not been able to locate one and neither have i what is the fundamental reason for this o zap bill higgins fermi national accelerator laboratory bitnet higgins fnal bitnet internet higgins fnal fnal gov span hepnet higgins second wave makes nubus card cages that work on the pds slots of at least three macs the se iisi and centris 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
