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- From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What is PCMIA?
- Message-ID: <69003@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 07:29:21 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <jsm1.720854823@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
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- PCMCIA == Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.
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- This is a standard interface that provides for peripheral devices of al
- er.. all types. This standard is supposed to mean that modems, faxes,
- LAN adapters, hard disks and other things will be available for your
- Amiga(and other computers) that are plug-compatible. This is sort of
- the IBM world's equivalent to AUTOCONFIG(C= trademark). The plug-n-Play
- features make it virtually goof-proof and 'theoretically' you can
- plug/unplug the cards with power on and a running system with no damage.
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- The Association has two standards that cover PCMCIA: PC Card Standard
- (release 2.0), and Socket Services Interface specification. I believe
- they are located in Sunnyvale CA.
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