<hardware> (PCI) A self-configuring personal computer local bus designed by Intel, released around Autumn 1993 and supported by most major manufacturers including Apple Computer. It is technically far supperior to VESA's local bus and runs at 33 Mhz. It is currently mostly used on Pentium based computers but is processor independent and so can work with other processor architectures such as PowerPC and Motorola 680x0 series.
(25 May 1996)