NuBus

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NuBus
Year created1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Created byMIT
Width in bits32
StyleParallel
The Macintosh II motherboard, with its six NuBus slots visible on the left
Example of a NuBus graphics card, a Radius PrecisionColor Pro 8/24xj. This is a "half-length" card, with a maximum length of 7 inches (18 cm). The maximum length for full-size NuBus cards is 12 inches (30 cm).

NuBus (/ˈn(j)uˌbʌs/) is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally developed at MIT and standardized in 1987 as a part of the NuMachine workstation project.[1] The first complete implementation of the NuBus was done by Western Digital for their NuMachine, and for the Lisp Machines Inc. LMI Lambda. The NuBus was later incorporated in Lisp products by Texas Instruments (Explorer), and used as the main expansion bus by Apple Computer and a variant called NeXTBus was developed by NeXT. It is no longer widely used outside the embedded market.

  1. ^ "Steve Ward CSAIL". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-09-21.