Newbie questions ... (yikes! :)

[Jima]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Bruce Smith wrote:
> The new powerbooks claim to have:
> "One PC Card/CardBus slot supporting one Type I or Type II card"
> Is that PCMCIA or something else?

 "PC Card" = PCMCIA.  They basically changed the name.  Probably because 
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.  It annoys me, for one, 
because "PC Card" is vague enough to describe CardBus, PCMCIA, AGP, PCI, 
ISA, etc; it feels like we've gained nothing but ambiguity.
 But whatever.

     Jima