Apple Mac 8600 - Manual (Page 15)

Basics Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) - 13
Peripheral Component Interconnect
(PCI)
The Power Macintosh 8600 and 9600 Series and Workgroup
Server 9650 computers offer a Peripheral Component
Interconnect (PCI) expansion bus. Because the PCI bus is an
industry standard, most existing PCI 2.0-compliant cards
(with the addition of a Mac OS-specific software driver)
will work in these computers.
PCI offers significantly higher performance than the NuBus
architecture used in previous Macintosh models. Running at
33 MHz, the PCI bus is up to three times faster than NuBus,
offering overall enhanced system performance, particularly
in the areas of video and networking.