[macmad]

Can someone tell me, is a PDS slot always a PDS slot? In other words, will a PDS ethernet card from an LC fit an old SE?

[Mystic 040]

My understanding is that the older pds slots accessed the cpu directly, thus "processor direct slot (PDS)". The LC series were designed differently and thus 'did not' access the cpu directly. They are not interchangable so they labeled them as 'LC PDS' slots so as not to confuse the two. The original PDS type cards in their respective slots are suppose to be more efficient than the LC PDS cards in their respective slots.

You can do a google search and probably find a more detailed explanation.

[superlarry]

the LC PDS slot is incompatible with anything outside of the LC series unless there's some adapter out there. i believe the SE has a nubus slot (i know my IIsi did) = incompatible.

[Michael A. Peters]

se had a pds slot (as did se/30), not nubus

the se and se/30 pds slots i believe are different, though.

[x user]

Originally posted by Michael A. Peters:
<STRONG>se had a pds slot (as did se/30), not nubus

the se and se/30 pds slots i believe are different, though.</STRONG>

I thought that the SE series had at least one NUBUS slot. Or was this a special slot that was converted to NUBUS for E-Net cards?

[itomato]

The SE & SE/30's PDS slot looks like a NuBus slot, but it's PDS. The SE's is unique to the SE, no other cards will work in it, and the SE's cards will not work in anything else. The SE/30 and IIsi both have the "030 PDS slot".

[x user]

Originally posted by itomato:
<STRONG>The SE & SE/30's PDS slot looks like a NuBus slot, but it's PDS. The SE's is unique to the SE, no other cards will work in it, and the SE's cards will not work in anything else. The SE/30 and IIsi both have the "030 PDS slot".</STRONG>

I see, I know the SI didn't have standerd Nubus, because you could add the co-procesor with it