Editing Expansion card (section)

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Most other computer lines, including those from [[Apple Inc.]], [[Tandy Corporation|Tandy]], [[Commodore International|Commodore]], [[Amiga]], and [[Atari, Inc.]], offered their own expansion buses. The [[Amiga]] used [[Amiga Zorro II|Zorro II]]. Apple used a proprietary system with seven 50-pin-slots for [[Apple II peripheral cards]], then later used both variations on [[Processor Direct Slot]] and [[NuBus]] for its Macintosh series until 1995, when they switched to a PCI Bus.

Generally speaking, most PCI expansion cards will function on any [[Central processing unit|CPU]] platform which incorporates PCI bus hardware provided there is a software driver for that type. PCI video cards and any other cards that contain their own [[BIOS]] or other ROM are problematic, although video cards conforming to VESA Standards may be used for secondary monitors. DEC Alpha, IBM PowerPC, and NEC MIPS workstations used PCI bus connectors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artofhacking.com/th99/index.htm#1|title=Motherboards |publisher= Artofhacking.com|access-date=|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130516040936/https://artofhacking.com/th99/index.htm#1|archive-date = 16 May 2013}}</ref> Both Zorro II and NuBus were [[plug and play]], requiring no hardware configuration by the user.

Other computer buses were used for industrial control, instruments, and scientific systems. One specific example is HP-IB (or Hewlett Packard Interface Bus) which was ultimately standardized as [[IEEE-488]] (aka GPIB). Some well-known historical standards include [[VMEbus]], [[STD Bus]], [[SBus]] (specific to Sun's SPARCStations), and numerous others.